The Mysteries of the Court of London, Vol. 5 — page 152: what you’re looking at

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Lo next proceoded to bure with v3 gine | Cannibal, who wasatoo heavy and clumsy to climb let; and having made a-hole through the wood, his the wall, which was a tolerably high one, obtained little foxible saw was again put into roquisition. In prompt admittance into the gérden ab tho back of Jess than @ quarter of an hour he had cut com- Suxondale House—for this was. the mansion where pletely round the lock; and the door. opened tu his the present burglary was being effected. thrust. : “A)l seems as quiet.as a workus,” whi “ Now, Tony, com Lori he said ; and they Tony Wilkins, as he and his leader carefully sur- entered the premises veyed the rear of the buildings. “There isn’t never All was dark within—vand “ah was silence likewisb, a light in none of thg rooms—and not so much asa at least: down in the lower region of the premises. mouse a-stirring.” _& dark lantern was quickly produced from Chiflin’s “Let's try this door, then,” said the Oannibyl. § capacious pocket—the candle inside was lighted by “ Or that there windy—eh P” suggested Tony = means of lucifer-matches with which he was ulsv “ No—the door,” was Chiflin’s, prompt answer: provided—and the two burglars commenced their for his experienced eye at once showed him, by the survey of the plhce. They first enterod the back aid of the moonlight, that the door prosented the kitchen; and as tho Cannibal pointed to tho iron readiest and easiest moans of effecting an entry. bars which protected the windows, he said in a whis- From a capacious pocket in the. lining of his per to his companion, “ I told you as how it wouldn® shaggy coat, ho drew forth a small saw, thin asa do to try the game on there. «The opening of a watch-spring, keen as an array of abark’s tecth,and shutter would have been nothing; but those irun flexible as a Castilian stiletto-blade. With a girg-° fences would have given harder work than you or I let he epeadily made a hole in the lower part of should have liked to try. All these kind of houses the door, near where he calculated the bolt must be; have got gratings to the lower windows. It isn’t and thrusting the saw inte the hole, ho cut out a the first time I have broke into a house in this circular pioce, leaving an aperture large enough to part of the wofld. Bat there’s nothing in this introduce his hand. He was thus enabled to feel back kitchen worth looking alter. So como alonyz. for the bolt and draw it back—a process which was It’s the butilcr’s pantry we must try, mate.” instantaneously accomplished. With theye words Chiffin led the way out of the The door was high, and there was nothing for back kitchen, and soon found a door which was fast Chiffin to stand on to reach the upper’ part of it. locked, but which he immediately concluded to be He accordingly made Tuny Wilkins go down upon the one communicating with the place he was in al}- foars ; and standing on his back, he went.to‘work search of. again. Another gimlet-hole was madein tha higher ‘ Hold the light, Tony,” he said; “and I'll get to portion of the door—the little saw, well moistened work again with the tonjs.” with oil, was assiduously plied again—and another This tithe he tried the effect of a small crowbar circular piece of wood, larga enough to afford an upon the door, which being of far lighter make than opening for the hand and wrist, was soon cut out, the one by which tho burglara had entered the Tho upper bolt wae thus felt for, and drawn back; promises, seemed to warrant this mode of dealing and Chiffin descended frum his human footstool— with it. Chiffin, we nood hardly say, was an ackoim- such a purpose Tony Wilkins having eetved, but not plished hand in using the crowbar for such purposes, without experiencing some degree of pain in his and made little noise in the process. The door -pack, as Mr. Chiffin was by no means the lightest speedily “yielded—a few more efforts, and it was - person in the world, broken completely open. The burglars passed into The reader will now understand thet the two the place, which, as Chiffia had anticipated, proved bolts of the door were drawn back; but the door to be the butler’s pantty. But iniinite was their iteelt’ was locked. It was a stout door—and Chiffin disappointment when after searching in every cup- dared not attempt to break it open with & crow-bar, board, they found no plate there. on account of the noise that would be made by such =“ This i is deuced . provoking,” growled tho Cannt. an operation. There was no key-holo visible on the hal ina ferocious m exterior sie; and thus he had no immediate indi- “ Cunsed mean of the pedple of the ‘ouse to take cation ot the position of the lock inside. But this their plate up to bed with ’em,” remarked Tony difficulty was speedily overcome, Again ordering Wilkins. “It ain’t giving a poor devil a fair chance,” Tony Wilkins to go down upon all-fours and make he added with the look of a man who fancied that himselt into @ foot-stool, the’Osanibal mounted.on he was cruelly wronged. ‘What's to bo done his back once more; and then, with # piece of now?” string and a leaden bullet at one ond he ‘proceeded “What's to be done ?” echoed the Cannibal, in a to sound for the lock, just asa sailor at seq vcunds voice which resembled the subdued grumblings vt a with a cord and plummet to ascertain the depth of hungry tiger: “why, hunt abvut for theawag till the water, Thrusting tholeaden bullet through the we find it, to be sure. And if'a throat or twois to hole that had been cut for the removal of the ' upper be cut in the search, what matters it ?” bolt, Chilfin grains let out the steing Until'the “Nufin at all,” respuuded Tuny Wilkins. “ Lead | ee ee ey - COMIC OOO© SS (CO)