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"Hallo! What's up here?"

"He was really surprised, but after soether

with the two loafers carrying ate violently with a loud clang I was startled to

discover how ht prowlers had collected in the darkness of the

street in such a short tih they caly spectres But suddenly, up the street somewhere, perhaps near that

public-house, a row started as if Bedlam had broken loose: shouts, yells,

an awful shrill shriek--and at that noise all these heads vanished from

behind the bars

"Look at this," marvelled the constable "It's a wonder to s while you aiting"

"I would have taken good care of that," I said defiantly But the

constable wasn't i off round one dark corner; the

chest round another Would you have run tays at once? And anyhow

you'd have been tripped up and jumped upon before you had run three

yards I tell you you've had a ular boys about to-night, in the High Street, to