"No, it wasn't, Ellen.

It was a good bit farther West--in fact, not so very far from here.

Near King's Cross -- that's how the cabman knew about it, you see.

They seems to have been done in a passage which isn't used no more." And then, as he thought his wife's eyes were beginning to look rather funny, he added hastily.

"There, that's enough for the present! We shall soon be hearing a lot more about it from Joe Chandler.