... he answered; I think he is a sort of mountebank, or comic lecturer, or something of the kind. On my way to my own room, I met in the passage the well-known Jeems Pipes of Pipesville, --otherwise Stephen Massett ,--whom I at once conjectured to be the individual the President had referred to. The two rooms communicating by double doors, I could not well avoid overhearing a portion of the performance, or more...