CHAPTER XXII. "QUEEN LIZ."
A cry in the darkness—a crime in the night.—
With the blood of the victim the sharp blade is wet;
In silence we gaze on the horrible sight—
The dark deed is done—but the end is not yet.
It was on this very night that the habitues of that particular passage in the Whitechapel section, gazed with sentiments of mingled awe and curiosity, as Sam Hop Lee withdrew the bloody weapon from the prostrate body of "Queen Liz."
Elizabeth's reputation in the passage was pretty clearly defined in our opening chapter. Her ability to defend herself and friends against her pugilistic and plundering neighbors had been the eventual outcome of fear, desperation and the first law of nature.