“If one half of the stories about Meysey Hill are true,” he answered, “I would not
stretch out my little finger to save his life. Knowledge was sacred
in Athens, knowledge and his twin, Art. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. ‘As I said, a mistake. By some it was affirmed that a subterranean
communication existed between the thief-taker's abode and Newgate, by means
of which he was enabled to maintain a secret correspondence with the
imprisoned felons: by others, that an under-ground passage led to extensive
vaults, where such malefactors as he chose to screen from justice might lie
concealed till the danger was blown over. "
"Lord!—think of having sharks for neighbours? Every morning I'll take a dip
into the lagoon. Taking hold of the hilt of his own foil, he
drew it forth.
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