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The alley was dark, dingy, flanked by ancient structures that were nearly all condemned There were a few shops on the street, a few poverty-level homes

In fact

The alley was remarkably like many a street

In old London Whitechapel, Spitalfields

The Ripper’s old haunt

London Novean didn’t find Peter until nearly five in the ainst the wall of a tenement He sat, his hands bloodied in front of hi to hi him in her arms

"You didn‘t do it, you didn’t do it!" she assured him "You didn’t kill her, Peter"

"How do you know I’m not a monster?"

"I know"

"How can you?"

"Because I know I’ve seen monsters, Peter, and you’re not one You didn’t kill her"

"Her?" Peter said, and he began to laugh hoarsely, but in a way that frightened her, for he verged on hysteria "Haven’t you heard? It’s been a double slaying tonight Toe’s Yard, the other in Mitre Square And, ah, you should hear what they already whisper about the second The things that were done to her, the violence! She was ain, and then to cry Megan shook hier than this!" She forced him to his feet, and then, when he continued to seem to have no will of his own, she slapped his cheek "You have not done this!

Understand the truth You could not have done this!"

"No, no, I don’t believe that I could have done such a thing, but I don’t knohere I was, or what I have done The ti but this blackness and the blood Oh, God, look at the blood on my hands, look at the blood " Shedarkness of night Daylight caht could take away the new terror The first victi Liz, was a Swedish prostitute She had been spared mutilation

The killer made up for it with Catherine, or Kate, Eddowes She had been even more cruelly ripped and torn than Polly Chap of the body reported Stoh killed within a mile of each other, Liz had died in the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Police; Kate had been killed in that of the City Police Massive manhunts by both forces were instantly underway A piece of bloodied apron was found, and written in white chalk on the fascia of black bricks at the edge of the nearby doorere the words, "The Juwes are The "

What ritten cah word of ht cause anti-Sean the pondering on exactly what the words meant-- and if they had even been written by the killer

Once again, the city went berserk Peter was at first ill with fear, then he began to believe Megan’s assurances, and he becauilty of the heinous cris, a major newspaper let out the information that a letter had been received-- prior to the latest killings--written by ato be the murderer It was addressed "Dear Boss," talked about the foolish police and the sharpness of his knife, proned, "Jack the Ripper" Another letter had been received soon after by the sa a double event

And e Lusk, chairilance Committee, received a se from the killer that he had "prasarved it" for Lusk--

while he fried and ate the other half

The foreists were approached by the police and the consensus confirmed that the kidney was human, most probably female

London ith fury and panic

Peter spent hours staring into space

Megan took to the streets alone, seeking Jack the Ripper

October passed Laura becay and fear He tended to his wife, and as she seeued her along with her pregnancy, he began to notice that Megan left night after night

He followed her, de your sanity!" she told hied her "If you’re about on this fool notion, I must be with you"