CHAPTER XLIX.
COLONEL BLOOD MEETS A TARTAR—THE RELEASE OF ELLEN HARMER—THE MURDER IN THE WOOD.
Tom Bates had not gone very far from the rendezvous of the Dozen, and was trudging along through the wind and rain, forming plans for that night’s operations, when some one in a dark street laid his hand roughly on his shoulder.
Tom stopped as if by instinct.
“That you, colonel?” he asked.
“That you, Bates?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Come this way out of the rain,” said he.
And he led the way up a dark, narrow alley, which was lighted by a single lamp.
“Well, and what news, Bates? Have you secured that reprobate Captain Jack yet?”