Widdershins Author:Oliver Onions It was of bloomy old red brick, and built into its walls were the crowns and clasped hands and other insignia of insurance companies long since defunct. The children of the secluded square had swung upon the low gate at the end of the entrance-alley until little more than the solid top bar of it remained, and the alley itself ran past boarded ba... more »sement windows on which tramps had chalked their cryptic marks.« less