His brain reeled. . This man has an evil reputation. Pure luck! But for that bottle of whisky, nobody in the Hong-Kong Hotel would
have been able to identify the photograph; and at this hour James Boyle
O'Higgins would have been on the way to Yokohama, and the trail lost for ever. ToC
Nearly nine years after the events last recorded, and about the middle of May,
1724, a young man of remarkably prepossessing appearance took his way, one
afternoon, along Wych Street; and, from the curiosity with which he regarded the
houses on the left of the road, seemed to be in search of some particular
habitation. Chapter XVII
THE CHANGE IN “ALCIDE”
“By-the-bye,” his neighbour asked him languidly, “who is our hostess?”
“Usually known, I believe, as Lady Ferringhall,” Ennison answered, “unless I
have mixed up my engagement list and come to the wrong house. A-L-I-V-A—Aliva—T-R-EN—Trencher that's it. In a few minutes
after the delivery of this note he will be in Newgate. “You see you do not know
how much of truth there is in his story. People ran out of their shops to join the pursuit; and, by
the time Wild had got into Field-lane, he had a troop of fifty persons at his heels
—all eager to assist in the capture. Entering London, he bent his way towards the west-end; and having some
knowledge of a secondhand tailor's shop in Rupert Street, proceeded thither, and
looked out a handsome suit of mourning, with a sword, cloak, and hat, and
demanded the price. In this state, it will be easy to draw him into a snare.
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