When London Sleeps — page 196: what you’re looking at

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THE ESCAPE ROOM. 191 to speak, even in order to save her child. With inar- ticulate moans and cries she struggled to free herself. But all in vain. Her strength was as nothing against that of her cowardly persecutor. Two)? Mark raised the child high above the trap. ‘‘Now, will you tell it!! It is probable that the little girl did not fully realize her danger,. but still she called out fearlessly : “Don’t, mamma, don’t you! You promised the kind lady that you wouidn’t. I’m not afraid!” ‘Then die!’’ exclaimed Haynes brutally. Hel ree )? It is more than doubtful if Blackwood would have obeyed his master to the last extent, and have committed the dastardly crime exacted of him, but before he could move or speak, Hilda, at the end of her endurance, and moved by a sudden inspiration, screamed : ‘“Church Road, Bayswater!’ ‘And the number!’’ “Twelve !? “Good!’? exclaimed Haynes, exultantly, as he flung her from him, her wrists all bruised and bleeding. ‘‘Close the trap, now, Mark.’’ Blackwood placed Leila upon the ground, and the little girl ran to her mother, where she was clasped in a passionate embrace. “Now, then,’? said Haynes, ‘‘clear out of this quick! Do you hear? And don’t let me see either of your ugly faces again!” And, beckoning Mark to follow hiin, he strode Eomicboo cS com.