The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 292: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

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. GOMIIGDOG SS) (C©)