“We have a man posted there already. That woman is one of the gang, and we’ve got her safe. But I’ll take your advice, and have that side scoured whilst I hang about the place.”
And he walked through the house, and out the back way, at the officer’s heels; meanwhile the man with the wounded arm was swaying where he sat from loss of blood, and I had to help him into the open air before at last I was free to return to poor Eva in her place of loathsome safety.
“We have a man posted there already. That woman is one of the gang, and we’ve got her safe. But I’ll take your advice, and have that side scoured whilst I hang about the place.”
And he walked through the house, and out the back way, at the officer’s heels; meanwhile the man with the wounded arm was swaying where he sat from loss of blood, and I had to help him into the open air before at last I was free to return to poor Eva in her place of loathsome safety.
