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Updated: July 9, 2025
To stop this nightmare he tried to count the gas-lamps: one, two, three, four, five but the same thought interrupted his calculation: "You are dead, since your betrothed is about to marry another." He was afraid he was going mad. A sharp pain shot across his forehead just above the right eyebrow.
It was rumoured that an English general had been killed, that the York and Lancaster Regiment had been cut up. London was uneasy, and at eleven o'clock at night a great crowd of people had gathered beneath the gas-lamps in Pall Mall, watching with pale upturned faces the lighted blinds of the War Office. The crowd was silent and impressively still.
Both guards and sentries were doubled; four light field-guns stood in the garden, and a row of gas-lamps had been installed there.
The million lights of the gas-lamps, stretching away now and then into the endless vistas of the boulevards, spoke to me of the delicious companionship of humanity, from which I had so nearly been snatched away. And the glorious girl by my side what of her companionship? Ah, that was more than a companionship; it was a perfect intercourse which we shared.
"Well, perhaps not," she assented. "Where are we going now? Oh yes, to the Xenophon!" She pulled him gayly along again, and after they had walked a block down and half a block over they stood before the apartment-house of that name, which was cut on the gas-lamps on either side of the heavily spiked, aesthetic-hinged black door.
He turned away and hurried across Union Square, repeating to himself, in a sort of inward chant: "It's all of two hours from Jersey City to old Catherine's. It's all of two hours and it may be more." It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station.
He had no fixed plan as to what to do when he arrived there, and it was only on reaching the Rue de Matignon that he recovered sufficient coolness to deliberate and reflect. He had arrived at the desired spot; how should he set to work to obtain the information that he required? The evening was a dark one, and the gas-lamps showed a feeble light through the dull February fog.
But by the time he had reached the riverside street to which his steps were directed, even a chance passer-by was a rarity; and the gas-lamps had become so few and far between that no notice would have been taken of him if the traffic had been greater. His footsteps echoed in the silent street until he reached the wooden door which was the entrance by night to Plumtree Wharf.
They came stumbling across the stony court and leaned on their rifles while one of them presented arms and received the word from the sentry. Little by little people began to creep up and down the sidewalks, and the noise of wooden shutters announced another day of toil begun. The point of the Luxembourg Palace struck fire as the ghastly gas-lamps faded and went out.
But of course it isn't the kind of place for you, Miss Trent. She kept silence. They were walking through a quiet street where the only light came from the gas-lamps. Ackroyd presently looked again into her face. 'Will you come out to-morrow? he asked, softly. 'Not to-morrow, Mr. Ackroyd. She added: 'If I did I couldn't come alone. It is better to tell you at once, isn't it?
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