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Presently black night overshadowed our enthusiast, who had so entirely missed his part of copying-clerk at a police-office; some vast object seemed to be thrown over him. It was a large oil-skin cap, which a sailor-boy of the quay had thrown over the struggling bird; a coarse hand sought its way carefully in under the broad rim, and seized the clerk over the back and wings.
The effect of public executions on those who witness them, requires no better illustration, and can have none, than the scene which any execution in itself presents, and the general Police-office knowledge of the offences arising out of them. I have stated my belief that the study of rude scenes leads to the disregard of human life, and to murder.
"What did you do, after making these discoveries?" "I closed the yard door. Then I locked the other door, and put the key in my pocket. After that I roused the servant, and sent him to the constable who lived near to us while I ran for the doctor, whose house was at the other end of our village. The doctor sent his groom, on horseback, to the police-office in the town.
Well, the men who plied at the stairs axed me all about it; but I keeps my counsel, and only tells them how the poor girl threw herself into the water, and how I pulled her out again; and in a week I had almost forgot all about it, when up comes an officer, and says to me, `You be Stapleton the waterman? and I says, `Yes, I be. `Then you must come along with me; and he takes me to the police-office, where I finds the poor young woman in custody for being accused of having murdered her infant.
In half an hour Samuel had actually parted from Daniel at the police-office behind the Shambles, and was hurrying to rouse his wife so that she could look after Dick Povey until he might be taken off to Pirehill Infirmary, as old Harrop had instantly, on seeing him, decreed. "Ah!" he reflected in the turmoil of his soul: "God is not mocked!" That was his basic idea: God is not mocked!
Hereupon he related all the circumstances of his late adventure to his astonished and disgusted comrade, who asserted roundly that he was a big booby, quite unfit to take care of himself. "Hows'ever, we must do the best we can for you," he continued, "so come along to the police-office." Information of the robbery was given, and inquiries instituted without delay, but without avail.
That cross-examination which he would have to undergo at the police-office, and again probably in an assize court, in which all his relations with the Vavasor family would be made public, was very vivid to his imagination. That he was called upon by duty to do something he felt almost assured. The man who had been allowed to make such an attempt once with impunity, might probably make it again.
"'Why do you go to those sort of people? "'I found out my mistake too late. "'Come along with me to the police-office. "'But, your excellency since I have stolen nothing? "'Idiot, that's the very reason. If you had stolen something, we might have arranged matters. "'Only wait till next time. I shall not always be so unfortunate.
The proprietor was a good-hearted man, and went with her to the police-office, and they telegraphed all over the city; but there didn't seem to be any such man found dead or drunk, or arrested for anything. She hadn't heard a word from him since.
In a frequented establishment, each day unfolds an ample catalogue of sorrow, misery, and guilt, developed in forms and combinations almost innumerable; and if the history of each customer could be known, the result would be such a catalogue as would scarcely be surpassed even by the records of a police-office or a prison. Even my brief stay while arranging for the redemption of Dr.
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