A faint anticipation of triumph showed in his manner and a subdued excitement. As if it were she, and not Melusine, who had been hurt by the imposters. How dreary it all looks. From the first I could see that neither believed my story. After what seemed like an eternity he turned right onto a dirt road that ended unceremoniously at a copse of leafless trees. 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. He has been lodged in every round-house in the metropolis, and has broken out of them all, and boasts that no prison can hold him. As they approached London Bridge, the thief-taker whispered Van Galgebrok, who acted as steersman, to make for a particular arch—near the Surrey shore. In after years you can return to your own country—to your friends.
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