WHO WILL SAVE HER? CHAPTER I. A NIGHT ADVENTURE. THERE is an evil neighbourhood in London -in the heart of London-in the black heart of London-and this is what it is like: A labyrinth of narrow streets, bordered by rows of houses, tottering, crumbling, darksome, sinister, menacing a fall-streets which, at every twenty or thirty yards, show sudden chinks, opening into frowsy courts and pestilential alleys. VOL. I. B |