StNicholas [serial] . rtins Lane, theranks of the pursuers were greatly thinned. InHolborn many remembered that they had impor-tant engagements to keep and that it was still aconsiderable distance to Clerkenwell. As for theremainder, they were got as far as the GraysInn Road, when it suddenly occurred to onegentleman, who was getting exceedingly sore inthe feet, that, after all, the highwayman mightnot be there. They pulled up to discuss the question. Theythought that in all likelihood the gentleman withthe sore feet was right; and if the truth be told,they hoped he was, for none of them were
StNicholas [serial] . rtins Lane, theranks of the pursuers were greatly thinned. InHolborn many remembered that they had impor-tant engagements to keep and that it was still aconsiderable distance to Clerkenwell. As for theremainder, they were got as far as the GraysInn Road, when it suddenly occurred to onegentleman, who was getting exceedingly sore inthe feet, that, after all, the highwayman mightnot be there. They pulled up to discuss the question. Theythought that in all likelihood the gentleman withthe sore feet was right; and if the truth be told,they hoped he was, for none of them were now asbrave as they had been. This last settled it. It was an impetuous Abershaw went out of their heads asquickly as he had entered; and they became pos-sessed with but one idea—to get back to Slaugh-ters and play draughts. Meanwhile the three constables, accompanied byAnthony Packe, Roland Hood, the man with theblack beard (who told them he was an Austrian),and one other gentleman—the sole survivors of. AS HE PASSED THE LITTLE GIRL, SHE SCREAMED, AND CLUNG TO THE OLD MANS XXXVII.—103. 8-7 Hi THE REFUGEE [July, a crowd of twenty —stood in the Grays Inn Road,holding a council of war. They discussed thematter for several minutes; and in the end it wasdecided to continue to search. Since, on twoformer occasions, Abershaw had somehow man-aged to escape from this house in Clerkenwell, itwas arranged that Anthony and the Austrianshould remain outside the front door, while oneof. the constables and the other gentleman en- flocked to the West End, to amuse themselves _after the boisterous fashion of the day, leavingthe narrow city streets deserted and dark aspitch; for the hanging lamps were few and farbetween, and people for the most part trusted tothe linkboys to light them on their way. Gashad only just been invented, but, as yet, wasutilized nowhere, save in a shop at the corner ofPiccadilly, which, in consequence, was one of the
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