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“I suppose you’ve had enough of it for one evening?” said the latter to Peace, who answered in the affirmative.
“Very good; we’ll be for making tracks, then.”
“What is the name of your club?” inquired Peace; when they had gained the street.
“It is called the ‘Tumblers’.”
“What a singular name! How came it to be christened that?”
“I don’t know. The idea is, I believe, that if the members tumble down they know how to pick themselves up again.”
CHAPTER XXXIX.
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THE TWO PERILS—LONDON BY NIGHT.
Anyone at all acquainted with metropolitan life cannot fail to have been struck with the number of objects which seem, by some mysterious agency, to fade away and disappear altogether.
Years ago, when the disappearance of Mr. Speke (not the “great discoverer,” but the great discovered) attracted so much attention, the papers were full of stories of similar mysterious absences of some people who had gone out some day, “in their usual health and spirits,” and never came back again, nor been heard of, dead or alive, since.