“I believe you are quite right so far as regards the present, at any rate,” someone remarked, from the depths of an easy chair. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished, and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. He hadn't patrolled old Pell Street as a plain clothes man without getting a glimmer of the ancient truth that East is East and West is West. Was there ever such madness?” “I am afraid that I don’t understand,” Ennison answered. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore —embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of watermen. ‘Well, sir, if I’ve to choose betwixt him and you, I’ll take you, no question. " "And so this is my reward for having made you the tip-top cracksman you are," muttered Blueskin;—"to be turned off at a moment's notice, because I silenced a noisy woman. At night she would turn it in her fingers like a rosary bead. Get a license—just an idea of mine. A shiver slid down inside her. Heedless, however, of the consequences, he pursued his task.
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