The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 266: what you’re looking at

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246 REYNOLDS’ WORKS 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, but just as he reached the front 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 terrible 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, 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 gratification of find- ing that he was safe in the hands of the law’s myrmidons after all. - = " TT Ty ET ge a RR EIR NR nr a a ~ ~ eS ™ om _— oe an ew Se ee - .- ~ a - ~ = es Se * - - - ~ ” = >» hota c ad —_ har wiles EOMMICLOOOKS