One of these was stamped out.

Desmond took the other.

Mike and O'Sullivan went between the poles, and adjusted the leathern straps over their shoulders, and started.
Emerging from the park at Charing Cross, past the old church of Saint.

Martin's in the Fields, and keeping round the walls to Holborn Bars, they made their way to their lodging, and Godolphin was carried into their room, which was on the ground floor.

Mike and O'Neil then took the chair away, and left it in a narrow alley, where it was not likely to attract attention until the morning.
Not until they returned was anything said to their prisoner.