The Gift of the Sailor: The String of Pearls & Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street — page 97: what you’re looking at

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other, while we take effectual means of circumventing him. Why do you linger?” “T do linger. Some mysterious influence seems to chain me to the spot.” “Some mysterious fiddlestick! Why, you are getting superstitious, colonel.” “No, no! Well, I suppose I must come with you. Lead the way, lead the way; and believe me that it requires all my reason to induce me to give up a hope of making some important discovery by going to Sweeney Todd’s shop.” “Yes, you might make an important discovery; and only suppose now that the discovery you did make was that he murdered some of his customers. If he does so, you may depend that such a man takes good care to do the deed effectually, and you might make the discovery just a little too late. You understand that?” “T do, I do. Come along, for I positively declare, that if we see anybody else go into the barber’s, I shall not be able to resist rushing forward at once, and giving an alarm.” It was certainly a good thing that the colonel’s friend was not quite so enthusiastic as he was, or from what we happen actually to know of Sweeney Todd, and from what we suspect, the greatest amount of danger might have befallen Jeffery, and instead of being ina position to help others in unravelling the mysteries connected with Sweeney Todd’s establishment, he might himself have been past all help, and most absolutely one of the mysteries. But such was not to be. @9OOO0OOOO CORniclooo S CO)