Aware that he should incur the
thief-taker's bitterest animosity by what he had done, the watchman, whose
wrath against Quilt Arnold had evaporated during the walk, thought it more
prudent not to hazard a meeting with his master, till the storm had, in some
measure, blown over. Did the other girls thank you?”
“Not really. As she looked in this direction, the thief-taker raised his eyes—those gray,
blood-thirsty eyes!—their glare froze the life-blood in her veins. ‘I have Joan to tell me how much I look like Mary. She broke a cobblestone over his head and
he was out. ”
“I don’t know. Will you venture?"
"It is a hazardous experiment," said Thames, after a moment's reflection; "but I
will make it. There were no doors in the bungalow; instead, there
were curtains of strung bead and bamboo, always tinkling mysteriously. ”
Annabel gave a little gasp. In
consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security
afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at
the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the
metropolis.
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