The Wrong Box Chapter 7 - In Which William Dent Pitman Takes Legal Advice

In which the weary yet earnest artist William Dent Pitman, beset by misfortune and conscience, seeks the counsel of his facetious friend Michael Finsbury upon the perplexing arrival of a mysterious barrel from Rome, concealing a dreadful secret that challenges their notions of innocence and respectability. Together they devise a peculiar but spirited scheme to conceal the difficulty from the inquisitive eyes of the law, their camaraderie bringing lightness to a sombre and bewildering predicament.