The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 364: what you’re looking at

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U ir TUE MYSTERIES OF THE COURT. 33:3 ns ee sive part: but bere, in this horrible jungle, it was quite different, Indeed, bis mind was attenuated by the sense of continuous perils which sarrounded him—by the objects he had seen—and by his bor- rible dreams at night: he was in a strange land, where everything was Gifferent from what he had been accustomed to in England; and thus was it that the Barker in an Indian jungle was himeelf a different being from the Burker in his own country. There be was, motionless in his hiding-place,— his mind full of a dismayed suspense: there were the two travellers, reclining on the grass, unsus- picious of impending evil; and there, in the dense mage of verdure behind them, were the two sinis- ter countenances, with eyes glaring as if upon in- tended victims. All of a sudden two objects were thrown forth—precisely at the same instant—from amidet those trees; and the next moment the two anfortunate travellers were writhing, convulsing, No. 97.—Fouxtm Series, and seeming by their desparate rovvenents ts d0 ‘battling for their very lives. The Burker compre- hended it all! Cords, with nooses at the ends, had been thrown forth from amidst the shade of the trees, With such unerring skilfulness and terrible precision were these lassos used that tho nooses had fallen round the necks of the two tra- vellers; while the murderers amongst the trees were drawing the cords tight, eo that the wretched : victims were already in the agonies of death. Accustomed though the Burker was to deeds of crime, not only iu respect to their contemplatian, but also their perpetration, he was nevertheless astounded, horrified, and appalled at this spec, tecle. Even if he hed wished to move, he bad not the power: his limbs were paralysed—his dlood had all eurdled in bis veins. He could no longer see the murderers within the grove: but he hed a frightful view of their victims, who were writhing in the agonies of death and vainly grasp a | comicibooks.conm