The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 145: what you’re looking at

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182 had a veek’s holiday; and you and Tim must get to business to-morrow. The blunt I got t’other night won’t lest for ever ; and we must make hay while the sun shines.” It is not however necessary to record any more of the conversation which took place, on this par- ticular occasion, between Barney the Burker and his worthy pupil: for we must pass on to the nar- ration of other matters. On the following day the sale took place at the house which Joseph Preston had inhabited on Cambridge Terrace; and by eight o’clock in the evening all the “lots” were cleared away, accord- ing to the terms duly specified in the of which Barney the Burker had obtained a copy, eo that he might judge whether the house would be left empty after the sale. It was between ten and eleven o'clock at night, No lights were to be seen an and Barney, passing round to the official “That's all right,” said the Burker to himeelf “ applications isn’t to be —and that’s ¢ sign there’s feller premises grooms connected with the th isting ci adjoining stables, might about. So Barney went and took a walk in secluded portion of the Regent’s Park, to re- most prudential course to be pur- circumstances, and likewise to while away the time until a later hour, when the THE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. carriages should have ceased to roll and the belated grooms should have retired to rest. The church clock in Albany Street had pro- claimed the hour of one in the morning, as Barney the Burker retraced his way to the rear of the premises, where he had decided upon making the SE nea ant ne cloar; and « small crow- bar, y as well as powerfully used, open the door of the cooch-bowes, Tenten, ing that place, he carefully closed and bolted the One of tern: The dark lantern was re-consigned to the Burker’s pocket: he carefally and noiselesly the window; and by means of a rope which he likewise had with him, lowered himself down into the yard. Creeping cautiously along the shade of the wall which separated that from the adj back wi reveal his form be . reach opened difficul the rapidly breath: for so shrewdly f He reached, as we have said, the chamber which he sought: again his lantern was prodaced—but he was cautious where he threw the hight, for fear lest it should be observed outside by the policeman on his beat. The shutters were however closed ; and thus there was less danger of (SOL (C DOO Col