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I am afraid we shan't be in time, but it is worth trying." The prize fighters all leaped to their feet. Mark had sparred with several of them, and, being open handed and friendly, was generally liked. In a moment, headed by Ingleston and Gibbons, they started at the top of their speed, and in less than a quarter of an hour were at bank side.
Thorndyke," the man said; "haven't seen yer for the last month or so." "No; I have been out of town. Do you expect Gibbons in here this morning?" "It is about his time, sir, when he has nothing in particular to see about. Like a turn with the mauleys this morning?" "Not this morning, Ingleston.
Gibbons muttered, and then, seizing his cap, said to the Lascar, "Come along with me; it aint likely that we shall be in time, but we will try, anyhow." He ran to Ingleston's. "Come along, Ingleston," he exclaimed, "and all of you. You all know Mr. Thorndyke. This man says he has been attacked by a gang down at Westminster, and will be murdered.
There seems to be a good many of them about, for now I think of it, I have run against them several times wherever I have been in town." "Now, sir, what did they want to kill you for?" "Well, Gibbons, it happened in this way. My father, you know, was murdered by a man who had a grudge against him, and who is both a highwayman and a house breaker." "They don't often go together," Ingleston said.
The rest sprang to their feet; Gibbons looked round, and as his eye fell upon Mark, who had, the moment the men inside rose, got into a standing position, Gibbons launched himself towards him, striking four of the ruffians who endeavored to stop him to the ground with his crushing blows. "This way," he shouted to his friends. "Ingleston and Tring, do you keep the door."
Ingleston keeps it shut as long as he can so as to give everyone a fair chance of a good place. If the gentleman will come in there with me I will have a look at him." Mark expressed his willingness to be looked at, and the man having gone and got the key of the room from Ingleston, went in with them and locked the door behind.
"The highwaymen generally look down upon the burglars and keep themselves to themselves." "I hew they do, Ingleston; but this fellow has been a convict, and is not particular what he turns his hand to.
But the men who had fled were too glad to have made their escape to think of anything but to make for their dens as quick as possible, and the party passed through the lanes into the open space in front of Parliament House without interruption. "We will go up to your place, Ingleston, and talk it over there," Mark said. "You can get those cuts bound up, and I shall be very glad to get a drink.
That thing they shoved into my mouth hurt my tongue a good deal, and I have not gone through a pleasant half hour, I can tell you." He walked up past Whitehall with Gibbons and Ingleston, the others going in pairs, so as not to attract attention.
"Some take to one thing and some to another, but the most of us try to 'ave a bar-parlour of our own. There's Will Wood, that I beat in forty rounds in the thick of a snowstorm down Navestock way, 'e drives a 'ackney. Young Firby, the ruffian, 'e's a waiter now. Dick 'Umphries sells coals 'e was always of a genelmanly disposition. George Ingleston is a brewer's drayman. We all find our own cribs.
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