Chapter 23 No.23

"Whilst vengeance, in the lurid air,

Lifts her red arm, exposed and bare-

Who, Fear, this ghastly train can see;

And look not madly wild, like thee!"

Collins.

It is certain that Tom Coffin had devised no settled plan of operations, when he issued from the apartment of Borroughcliffe, if we except a most resolute determination to make