There'll be fun presently which I don't want to miss." "It was the black woman who knifed our friend Rufus, wasn't it--in the theatre there ?" asked the third soldier.
"They say so; but as he was trodden as flat as a roof-board, and they had to take him up in pieces, it is difficult to know the truth of that matter.

Anyhow his mates are anxious to get the lady, and I should be sorry to die as she will, when they do, or her mistress either.

They have leave to finish them in their own fashion." "Hadn't we best be going ?" said the first soldier, who evidently was anxious to keep some appointment.
"Hullo!" exclaimed the second, a sharp-eyed fellow, "there's a stair; we had better just look up it." "Not much use," answered the officer.

"That old thief Amram, the corn-merchant, has a store there, and he isn't one of the sort to leave it unlocked.

Still, just go and see." Then came the sound of footsteps on the stair, and presently a man could be heard fumbling at the further side of the door.