Penny Dreadfuls, 1860 · page 291 of 400
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REVELATIONS OF THE MONSTER-MAN — 261 and sped from the room. Meagles, starting from his seat, — sprang after him and implored him to remain a few minutes longer. But the monster-man, heeding him not, hastened precipitately down the stairs; and just at the moment that Meagles reached the threshold of the door opening into the street, the unhappy being disappeared around the corner of a narrow lane on the opposite side of the Edgeware Road. COU (SC 0)(YO) SS mn