He had advanced here but a few paces, when a faint scream caused him to bound onward at full speed.

In a moment after, he came to the corner of a narrow, dark street, down which he perceived two forms hurrying; one, a female, evidently struggling against the superior force of the other.
His warning cry, and the sound of his rapidly advancing footsteps, caused the man to relax his hold, when the female figure glided away with wind-like fleetness.

The man hesitated an instant; but, before Perkins reached the spot where he stood, ran off in an opposite direction to that taken by the woman.
Here was an adventure calculated to give to the mind of Perkins a new and keener interest in the young seamstress.

He paused but a moment, and then ran at the height of his speed in the direction the female form, which he had good reason to believe was hers, had taken.

But she was nowhere to be seen.