[Colonel Thorndyke’s Secret by G. A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookColonel Thorndyke’s Secret CHAPTER XIV 19/30
Well, sir, if you don't want anything done to them, the sooner we are off the better. Those fellows who got away may bring a lot of others down upon us.
As long as it is only fists, we could march through Westminster; but as they would have knives, it is just as well to get out of it before there is any trouble.
You are got up in a rum way, Mr.Thorndyke." "Yes; I will tell you about it afterwards.
I agree with you that we had best be moving at once." 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.
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