Rogues
by Ida Alexa Ross Wylie (9781150592577)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: John Lane company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V Not very far from an unfashionable part of London, commonly known as Whitechapel, there is a dirty little street which serves as a means of communication between two larger and more populous thoroughfares. In this region there are many dirty little streets, so that the description would be scarcely adequate were it not added that Herbert -- or 'Urbert Street to use the local designation -- was by far and away the dirtiest, narrowest and most evil-smelling of them all. In the day time it gave the impression of being wholly deserted -- not so much as an urchin enlivened its unsavoury gutters -- but towards evening there was a change which altered the whole character of the place. Dark figures slunk out of unlighted doorways and little mysterious groups formed themselves well out of reach of the lamp light -- scattering precipitately in all directions as a couple of stalwart constables promenaded down the centre of the narrqw roadway. In a word -- ''Urbert Street had a reputation which put Seven Dials to shame, and successfully saved it from the tender administrations of amateur"slumbers" and "Lady Beneficents" who were rumoured to haunt the more respectable regions. Even the constables hunted in couples, a few unpleasant little incidents having proved that it was unhealthy even for six foot of Yorkshire manhood to appear unchaperoned, and "swells" were naturally unknown. Consequently, the appearance of a tall, well-dressed young man who drove up to the corner in a taxi, would have caused a sensation had the usual habitues been there to witness it. For reas...

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