" "What! the famous housebreaker. Her head felt absurdly like one of those noddling manikins in the Hong-Kong curio-shops. " "What'll it cost to have you all to myself for the day?" Ah Cum named the sum. But the besetting evil of the place, and that which drew down the severest censures of the writers above-mentioned, was that this spot,—which of all others should have been most free from such intrusion—was made a public exhibition. There's a friend of Sir James—a young man, an engraver of masquerade tickets and caricatures,—his name I believe is Hogarth. I am. On the morrow Spurlock (who was unaware that he had offered a prayer) let down the bars to his reserve. From all angles he was at a disadvantage—in weight, skill, endurance. What a buzz of admiration ran round the court as he appeared! And, how handsome and composed he looked! Everybody wondered that such a stripling could commit such desperate robberies. " "Did Ah Cum advise you?" "He did pretty well for a Chinaman. It was so hopeless to put it to them. Try and consider me your elder brother, or an old family friend, whichever you like best. ToC On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of eleven, the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure quarter of the Borough of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was opened; and a man, with a lantern in his hand, appeared at the threshold.
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