The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 297: what you’re looking at

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266 REYNOLDS’ WORKS purse, and how he had hinted about going away, we thought the best thing we could do was to send up to you at once, to tell you to come down this evening and talk over the business. But hark! the up-stairs bell has just rung. Go, mother, quick, and see what he wants.” Mrs. Webber accordingly bustled up the flight of steps, and having remained absent for five minutes, she reappeared in the scullery. ‘““ He has made up his mind to leave,”’ she said, in a mys- terious whisper, and with still more ominously mysterious looks. ‘‘ He says he shall go the day after to-morrow, and he asked if I could get somebody who muse be trusted to deliver a letter to-morrow — “To be sure,” interjected the Burkes with a significant leer. ‘‘ You said yes, of course? ” ‘“‘ Of course I did,’”’ responded the old woman, almost in- dignantly, as if she thought that it was an insult to doubt the nature of the reply she had given. ‘‘ Who knows but that the letter may be a full confession of all the wrong he has done? Perhaps it will be to the people he has robbed, for that he has done something of the sort, there can’t be the slightest uncertainty.”’ “Not a bit of it,’ said Bab, assentingly. ‘‘ But under present circumstances, we won’t do anything to-night; we will wait till to-morrow night. We will read the letter that he wants to send, and maybe it will put him so much in our power that we may be able to make him give up to us all he has got, and so save us the necessity of — you know what,” and with a darkly sinister look, she glanced down to that part of the floor where the table stood upon a small square piece of drugget. ‘“ Ay,” said the Burker, ‘ that’s the best plan. If as how we can get it by fair means, well and good, and if not, then — ”’ And lifting up his club, he whAale it in a significant manner, his countenance at the same time becoming so diabolically ferocious that even his accomplices in crime could not prevent themselves from shuddering. ‘That place has seen one or two go down,” observed Jack Smedley, ‘‘ and may be it will see another before we are much older.”’ “Yes, you and me have done a little business together Gomichbooks (E(0)