The Mysteries of the Court of London Vol. 7 — page 86: what you’re looking at

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afford you the means of disguise and 40 give you money—if I were also to hold out to you a prospect of a muoh larger sym, so that you might escape out of the country and go to America or France, or go out to Australia— anything, in sho ‘Your lordship may command me in every way,” exclaimed the Burker, his hideons hang- dow countenance testifying the utmost joy. “There’s nothing I’d atick at to serve so kind a friend as your Grace offers to prove towards Q. * Well and fairly spoken,” rejoined thg Duke “TI do indeed require a most servica at your hands; and if you fulfil it, all that I have promised shall be done.”’ We will not dwell any longer upon the con- versation that took place between the Duke of Marchmont and misoreant companion : suffice it ta say that the latter fully compre- '-of the liq " hended the dark iniquitous business that was entrasted to him, and swore to accomplish if. No. 6E.—FOUBTH SERIL8, ® The Duke ascenced to his chamber, and there procured # amall@hial containing a dye for the complexion, a blak wig with frixsy ourls, and a false moustache,—these articles having heen required by his Grace for some uérading purposes several years back, and having since remained forgotten until now in some nook of his wardrobe, fle then took from a cupboard a discarded suit of apparel, which by accident had not yet passed as “ perquisite” into the hands of his valet; and descending with these things, the Duke of Merchmont rejoined the whom he had left in the servants’ hall. ruffian speedily metamorphosed himself ac- cording to the inatractions he received and the means placed at his dis , and of which he availed himself with te satisfaction i By the aid of a looking- glass he dyed his complexion with a portion tid furnished by the phial; and the Duke informed him how, by the pur- chase of a few simple things at a chemist’s, ECOMRniclacae SS (CO)