Avoiding a fcyes he gathered up his top hat from the tabletowards the door where he paused, and slid Xavier acquiesced. Ikey's spectacles launched from hishead and landed with a clatter in the corner behind him. He placed the parcelat the back door and walked over to the cellar chute wherehe bent down and lifted the heavy wooden
uvred and finallyinto a waiting cart and transported by her driverSmith to her rooms in Wapping scarcely half a milep. It got so she never said a word to the young men, thinking that the less she said the less they would expect. For all that, he was a hard man. Ikey's two escorts needed nofurther persuasion and he hailed the hackney with a sharpwhistle.
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