The Murderers In The Young Lady's Chamber.
"Oh, Heaven protect me!" said the young lady.
"A—men!" said Lupin. "Now my dear, who is in the house besides you?"
"My father, the alderman, and my mother, and the servants above stairs.—Oh, spare my parents."
"Very good, where can any money be got hold of?"
"Will a hundred pounds content you?"
"Yes," said Todd, putting his head between the curtains at the foot of the bed. The young lady gave a faint cry, and Mr. Lupin flourished the carving-knife over her—"Where are the hundred pounds?" he said, "and we will go."
"In my father's room. It is the next room. His purse is on the dressing-table. If you will let me go and get it, I will give it to you upon your promise then to leave the house."
"How are we to trust you not to say that we are here?"
"I swear by all that is holy—I use the name of the great God. Oh, indeed you may trust me."