[Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Thorndyke’s Secret CHAPTER XIV 14/30
I need not say that anyone who lets his tongue wag about it is likely to come to a worse end than this bloodhound.
We will have another glass of grog before you turn out; the streets won't be quiet for another hour yet, and there is another guinea of this worthy hawker's to be spent. Summers, make another big bowl of punch.
Don't put so much water in it as you did in the last." The landlord, a notorious ruffian, was just coming into the room with a huge bowl when there was the sound of a scuffle outside. "You had better see what is up," Black Jim said, and two of the men nearest the door unbarred and opened it.
As they did so there was a rush, and eight powerful men ran in, knocking to the floor those who had opened the door.
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.
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