"They come—they come!"
"Officers?" said Lupin.
"Yes, I think so. On—on. Oh, push on!"
"This way."
Lupin crossed the road, and sprung down a narrow court; but even as he did so, came that voice, crying—
"There they go. Stop them—stop them! There they go! Fifty pounds reward!"
A frightful oath burst from Todd's lips, as he emerged from the court still close upon the heels of Lupin. They were now in a tolerably wide street, and they saw but one individual in it, and he was evidently, by the curious manner in which he sometimes favoured the curb-stone by walking upon it for a few paces, and then lumbered up against the house, just a little gone in intoxication.
This individual, after some fumbling in his pocket, produced a latch key, and having staggered up the steps of a house, he made some ineffectual attempts to open the door.
"Hold!" said Todd to Lupin. "Anything is better than this race for life. We can hide in the passage of that house until the pursuit is past. Come."
"A good thought," said Lupin.