At last the policemen among them decided upon a course of action. They had learned by the united testimony of Ruby and Crumb that Sir Felix was Sir Felix. He was to be carried in a cab by one constable to Bartholomew Hospital, who would then take his address so that he might be produced and bound over to prosecute. Ruby should be even conducted to the address she gave,--not half a mile from the spot on which they now stood,--and be left there or not according to the account which might be given of her. John Crumb must be undoubtedly locked up in the station-house. He was the offender;--for aught that any of them yet knew, the murderer. No one said a good word for him. He hardly said a good word for himself, and certainly made no objection to the treatment that had been proposed for him. But, no doubt, he was buoyed up inwardly by the conviction that he had thoroughly thrashed his enemy.

At last the policemen decided upon a course of action. They had learned Sir Felix's identity from Ruby and Crumb. He was to be carried in a cab to Bartholomew Hospital by one constable, who would then take his address. Ruby should be conducted to the address she gave. John Crumb must be undoubtedly locked up in the station-house. He was the offender; no one said a good word for him. He made no objection, buoyed up inwardly by the conviction that he had thoroughly thrashed his enemy.
