Through this the chief justice entered , so that even those who were spying on him and following him would merely have observed that the justice betook himself every day in a mysterious way somewhere , and would never have suspected that to go to the rue de babylone was to go to the rue blomet .
Solomon gills laughingly defied him to find out anything of the kind ; and walter , revolving in his thoughts all sorts of impracticable ways of making fortunes and placing the wooden midshipman in a position of independence , betook himself to the offices of dombey and son with a heavier countenance than he usually carried there .