"Where am I?" asked Spurlock. It was a sort of cooking-room, with an
immense fire-place flanked by a couple of cauldrons, and was called Jack
Ketch's Kitchen, because the quarters of persons executed for treason were there
boiled by the hangman in oil, pitch, and tar, before they were affixed on the city
gates, or on London Bridge. ”
“May I put you in a hansom?” he asked, lifting his stick. She looked paler than ever; but her countenance, though bewildered, did not
exhibit the alarm which might naturally have been anticipated from the strange
and perplexing scene presented to her view. “But you must forgive me, John. "
With this, he drew the spike from his pocket; and, drowning the sound of the
operation by whistling, singing, shuffling, and other noises, contrived, in a few
minutes, to liberate his companion from the handcuffs. It towered up high
above the level of the pass, thousands of feet, still, shining, and white, and
below, thousands of feet below, was a floor of little woolly clouds. “Perhaps you will help me shuffle?”
Ann Veronica did, and also assisted nimbly with the arrangements of the rows
of eight with which the struggle began.
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