IN WHICH —

0:07:30: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK, Ch. 14:

• We return to Spring-Heel’d Jack plunging into the dark filthy waters of the Thames, in a quest to save poor Ellen Folder from the consequences of her rash act in leaping to her death. He comes to the surface and finds the tidal current is fierce, and strikes out in search of the girl. He sees her about to get sucked under a barge that’s moored in the stream, but he reaches her a moment too late; to avoid being sucked under the barge, he grabs it and climbs aboard. Then, hearing Ellen calling, he hurries to the other side; but there’s a guard on the barge who thinks he is a thief! Will he reach the poor drowning girl in time to save her life?

0:28:00: THE BALLET-GIRL'S REVENGE, Ch. 14:

• In this chapter, Rose goes back to the theater to try again to talk her way into a show-biz job. Just as she is being repulsed, Jack Halliday appears and squires her to the manager’s door, past the screeners. She is conveyed into the manager’s presence; the manager is there with another man in the room. He tells her to get lost, but just then the other man turns around and hey, it’s Count Lerno! Count Lerno, of course, urges the manager to take Rose on. The manager does. As Rose is leaving, she tells Jack Halliday of her good fortune, and he is delighted, but warns her not to trust Count Lerno.

• Back home, Rose sees evil parson Abel Booth leaving her house door. Entering, she asks her father what Abel was doing, and Hugh realizes Abel was spying on him. Hugh clearly knows some kind of showdown is coming, and he blames Rose for it: “It is your namby-pamby modesty that has brought this evil down on me.” Apparently she was supposed to allow Abel Booth to ravish her the previous day, and he is now angry because she did not. Thanks a lot, Dad ....
• Now looking out the window, he sees Abel Booth and two other men on the sidewalk looking up at them. Hugh knows this means the hour has come, so he orders Rose up into her room and locks her in, and gets an old-fashioned pistol out of a hidden cubby in the floor. A showdown is about to happen. Will he survive it? If he does not, will she?

PLUS —

• Learn the meaning of "a gent from the Spice Islands," "studying botany," "flash covesses," "gravel-tax collectors," "barking-irons," "pins," "flickers," "the diamond squad," and a few other words of highway-robber slang!

Join host. Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!

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