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"Yes, I remember of course, but why--"

"Sir, they 're all on 'eht,

--only, this time, it's you they 're arter"

"Me--are you sure?"

"And sartin! Corporal Richard Roe, late Grenadiers, give , sir Corporal Dick's

my pal as keeps the 'Gun' in Gray's Inn Lane, you -crib for the flash, leary coves So,

v'en the Corp tipped me the vord, sir, I put my castor on my sconce,

slipped a barker in ht

say 'daddle,' d' ye see, and toddled over to keep a ogle on you And,

sir, if it hadn't been for the young gent as shadowed ye all the way

to Giles's Rents, it's my opinion as they'd ha' done you into a

corp as you co"

"But why should they want to do for me?"

"V'y, sir, they'd do for their own mothers, j'yful, if you paid 'e?"

"Vell, sir, na no names, there's a party as I suspect fro to try to ketch

this here werry night, sir--as I rant

de-lick-too, vich is a law ter--in the werry act, sir, if

you'll help me?"