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378 THE COURT OF LONDON and if you like, your master, Mr. Coffin, can go and see it at her lodgings.”’ “ Well and good,” observed Dick Melmoth. ‘ This looks like business. Where is the lady’s lodging? ” “In Fetter Lane,’ and Emmerson named the number of the house where his wife and daughter were dwelling. ‘‘ They will visit me in the course of the day. I will tell them that a person may probably call upon them this evening in order to see that they really possess the sum we have named. Will that arrangement do?” “ Yes, perfectly,’ replied Melmoth. ‘“ Mr. Coffin has left the business to me to manage, because he himself can’t very well come and see you on account of its not being usual for him to visit persons in your situation.” “T understand you,’’ said EKmmerson, with a ghastly look, for he knew that the allusion was meant to Coffin in his capacity of public executioner. “‘ But the plan of my escape, the means, the arrangements — ”’ “ T will tell you more to-morrow morning,” interrupted Dick Melmoth. ‘‘ We must not converse too long now.”’ He then proceeded to exercise his tonsorial functions upon Mr. Emmerson, and by the time he had done, the turnkey came back to give him egress from the cell. Emmerson was now once more alone, and he proceeded to reflect upon all that had just taken place. But his reverie was presently interrupted by the entrance of the chaplain, and again did the condemned man conduct himself in a way which induced the reverend gentleman to think most favourably of his state of mind. Soon after midday Mrs. and Miss Emmerson again made their appearance, and Emmerson, after explaining to them the nature of the visit they were to expect in the evening, addressed his wife in the ensuing terms: “Now, remember, you will show the person that calls, whoever he may be, one thousand guineas and no more. If he asks whether you possess more, you will give an emphatic reply in the negative. And be careful that he sees the money only, and touches 1t not, for I am dealing with unscrupulous characters, — necessarily so in the position wherein I am placed. I need not tell you that it is my life which has to be saved, my life which to a certain extent will be in your hands on this occasion.” ) EORNIELDOOKS5 (EC) im ae)