Penny Blood Serial Fiction — page 284: what you’re looking at

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THE PREPARED PITFALL 267 and I will be punctual. And now, if you have nothing more to say, I shall wish you good night.”’ ‘“ Good night, Madge. But I say, by the bye,” exclaimed Chiffin, ‘‘ do you happen to have seen that Lady Saxondale of late; she, you know, that me and Tony — ”’ “As if I did not know perfectly well who you mean,”’ interrupted Madge, fixing her eyes keenly upon the Cannibal for a moment, and then averting them. “Of course, because you stalled her off from setting the detectives to work. How the deuce did you manage to have any influence with her? ”’ “We will talk upon that subject another day,” responded the woman. “Yes, and then may be— But no matter,’’ said the Cannibal, interrupting himself, for he was afraid if he let drop any more, Madge would suspect that her ladyship was his employer in the present business, and that if she found out he had been promised the enormous sum of two thousand guineas for accomplishing the diabolical deed, she would not be contented with the erty guineas which Hie had offered for her assistance. “Good night,” said Madge once more, and she thereupon took her departure from Solomon Patch’s boozing-ken. CONnNIEDOOKS (S(O)