Squire Heritage, or Edward Marston, as we may now again call him, leapt into a cab when he left Preene, and bade the man drive to Birnie's address.
It was then close on midnight.
He was playing a desperate game in venturing thus into the lion's den, but it was the last chance left him.
If he could silence Egerton he might purchase a respit
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