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eee, by the front door; for he felt assured that the whole neighbourhood would be quickly aroused. Snatching up his shoes, his cap, and his club, he darted from the room—rushed with the reckless brutal violence of a mad bull through the bevy of half-naked girls who were gathered in a fright on the landing—Imocked down Mother Bambridge as she suddenly emerged from a ground-floor room in which she slept—and tearing open the front-door, darted forth. He ran along the alley with all his might: bué just as he reached tho frent of the public-house, a couple of policemen emerged from a little court that led out from that part of the alley. Their strong arms clutched hold of the Burker; and as he offered a desperate resistance, the bludgeon of one of the officers dealt him a blow which rendered him powerless. At the same moment Captain Stanley and Lord Charles Meredith—having managed to escape from the bullies with whom we left them in conflict, | No. 34.—Fovrrm Sgrizs. as Saas cis ee all 1 sete ; ith and at whose hands they had received no small amount of ill-treatment, though fortunately no serious injury—arrived upon the spot where the Burker was thus captured ; and they had the grati- fication of finding that he was safe in the hands of the law’s myrmidons after all. OHAPTER IL. fHE INTERVIEW. Cuerstran Asiton, on being dismissed from the employment which the literary mania of the Earl of Lascelles had furnished him, would have con- sulted Mr. Redcliffe as to the course which he should now adopt with a view to obtain another situation: but that gentleman was absent from London, relative to the trial of Lettice Rodney. (CO an DOO (CO