Before I could express my just indignation, they both grinned, and said to me: "Please to look out, sir!" I did look out.

Their cab had stopped.
Where?
At a church door! What effect this discovery might have had upon the ordinary run of men I don't know.

Being of a strong religious turn myself, it filled me with horror.

I have often read of the unprincipled cunning of criminal persons, but I never before heard of three thieves attempting to double on their pursuers by entering a church! The sacrilegious audacity of that proceeding is, I should think, unparalleled in the annals of crime.
I checked my grinning subordinates by a frown.

It was easy to see what was passing in their superficial minds.