This was the conclusion at which Mr. Calton arrived as, he followed his guide through the crowded streets, and saw with what deep interest the crowd listened to the rhythmic25 strains of Strauss and the sparkling melodies of Offenbach. The brilliantly-lit street, with the never-ceasing stream of people pouring along; the shrill26 cries of the street Arabs, the rattle of vehicles, and the fitful strains of music, all made up a scene which fascinated him, and he could have gone on wandering all night, watching the myriad27 phases of human character constantly passing before his eyes. But his guide, with whom familiarity with the proletarians had, in a great measure, bred indifference28, hurried him away to Little Bourke Street, where the narrowness of the thoroughfare, with the high buildings on each side, the dim light of the sparsely29 scattered30 gas-lamps, and the few ragged-looking figures slouching along, formed a strong contrast to the brilliant and crowded scene they had just left. Turning off Little Bourke Street, the detective led the way down a dark lane. It was as hot as a furnace from the accumulated heat of the day. To look up at the clear starlit sky was to experience a sensation of delicious coolness.
“Keep close to me,” whispered Kilsip, touching31 the barrister on the arm; “we may meet some nasty customers about here.”
It was not quite dark, for the atmosphere had that luminous32 kind of haze33 so observable in Australian twilights, and this weird34 light was just sufficient to make the darkness visible. Kilsip and the barrister kept for safety in the middle of the alley35, so that no one could spring upon them unaware36, and they could see sometimes on the one side, a man cowering37 back into the black shadow, or on the other, a woman with disordered hair and bare bosom38, leaning out of a window trying to get a breath of fresh air. There were also some children playing in the dried-up gutter39, and their shrill young voices came echoing strangely through the gloom, mingling40 with a bacchanalian41 sort of song, sung by a man, as he slouched along unsteadily over the rough stones. Now and then a mild-looking string of Chinamen stole along, clad in their dull-hued blue blouses, either chattering42 shrilly43, like a lot of parrots, or moving silently down the alley with a stolid44 Oriental apathy45 on their yellow faces. Here and there came a stream of warm light through an open door, and within, the Mongolians were gathered round the gambling-tables, playing fan-tan, or leaving the seductions of their favourite pastime, to glide46 soft-footed to the many cook-shops, where enticing-looking fowls47 and turkeys already cooked were awaiting purchasers. Kilsip turning to the left, led the barrister down another and still narrower lane, the darkness and gloom of which made the lawyer shudder48, as he wondered how human beings could live in such murky49 places.
At last, to Calton’s relief, for he felt somewhat bewildered by the darkness and narrowness of the lanes through which he had been taken, the detective stopped before a door, which he opened, and stepping inside, beckoned50 to the barrister to follow. Calton did so, and found himself in a low, dark, ill-smelling passage. At the end a faint light glimmered52. Kilsip caught his companion by the arm and guided him carefully along the passage. There was much need of this caution, for Calton could feel that the rotten boards were full of holes, into which one or the other of his feet kept slipping from time to time, while he could hear the rats squeaking53 and scampering54 away on all sides. Just as they got to the end of this tunnel, for it could be called nothing else, the light suddenly went out, and they were left in complete darkness.
“Light that,” cried the detective in a peremptory56 tone of voice. “What do you mean by dowsing the glim?”
Thieves’ argot57 was, evidently, well understood here, for there was a shuffle58 in the dark, a muttered voice, and someone lit a candle. Calton saw that the light was held by an elfish-looking child. Tangled59 masses of black hair hung over her scowling60 white face. As she crouched61 down on the floor against the damp wall she looked up defiantly62 yet fearfully at the detective.
“Where’s Mother Guttersnipe?” asked Kilsip, touching her with his foot.
She seemed to resent the indignity63, and rose quickly to her feet.
“Upstairs,” she replied, jerking her head in the direction of the right wall.
Following her direction, Calton — his eyes now somewhat accustomed to the gloom — could discern a gaping64 black chasm65, which he presumed was the stair alluded66 to.
“Yer won’t get much out of ’er to-night; she’s a-going to start ’er booze, she is.”
“Never mind what she’s doing or about to do,” said Kilsip, sharply, “take me to her at once.”
The girl looked him sullenly67 up and down, then she led the way into the black chasm and up the stairs. They were so shaky as to make Calton fear they might give way. As they toiled68 slowly up the broken steps he held tightly to his companion’s arm. At last they stopped at a door through the cracks of which a faint glimmer51 of light was to be seen. Here the girl gave a shrill whistle, and the door opened. Still preceded by their elfish guide, Calton and the detective stepped through the doorway69. A curious scene was before them. A small square room, with a low roof, from which the paper mildewed70 and torn hung in shreds71; on the left hand, at the far end, was a kind of low stretcher, upon which a woman, almost naked, lay, amid a heap of greasy72 clothes. She appeared to be ill, for she kept tossing her head from side to side restlessly, and every now and then sang snatches of song in a cracked voice. In the centre of the room was a rough deal table, upon which stood a guttering73 tallow candle, which but faintly illuminated74 the scene, and a half empty rectangular bottle of Schnapps, with a broken cup beside it. In front of these signs of festivity sat an old woman with a pack of cards spread out before her, and from which she had evidently been telling the fortune of a villainous-looking young man who had opened the door, and who stood looking at the detective with no very friendly expression of countenance76. He wore a greasy brown velvet77 coat, much patched, and a black wide-awake hat, pulled down over his eyes. From his expression — so scowling and vindictive78 was it — the barrister judged his ultimate destiny to lie between Pentridge and the gallows79.
As they entered, the fortune-teller raised her head, and, shading her eyes with one skinny hand, looked curiously80 at the new comers. Calton thought he had never seen such a repulsive81-looking old crone; and, in truth, her ugliness was, in its very grotesqueness82 well worthy83 the pencil of a Dore. Her face was seamed and lined with innumerable wrinkles, clearly defined by the dirt which was in them; bushy grey eyebrows84, drawn frowningly over two piercing black eyes, whose light was undimmed by age; a hook nose, like the beak85 of a bird of prey86, and a thin-lipped mouth devoid87 of teeth. Her hair was very luxurious and almost white, and was tied up in a great bunch by a greasy bit of black ribbon. As to her chin, Calton, when he saw it wagging to and fro, involuntarily quoted Macbeth’s lines —
“Ye should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That ye are so.”
She was no bad representative of the weird sisters.
As they entered she eyed them viciously, demanding,
“What the blazes they wanted.”
“Want your booze,” cried the child, with an elfish laugh, as she shook back her tangled hair.
“Get out, you whelp,” croaked88 the old hag, shaking one skinny fist at her, “or I’ll tear yer ’eart out.”
“Yes, she can go.” said Kilsip, nodding to the girl, “and you can clear, too,” he added, sharply, turning to the young man, who stood still holding the door open.
At first he seemed inclined to dispute the detective’s order, but ultimately obeyed him, muttering, as he went out, something about “the blooming cheek of showin’ swells89 cove’s cribs.” The child followed him out, her exit being accelerated by Mother Guttersnipe, who, with a rapidity only attained90 by long practice, seized the shoe from one of her feet, and flung it at the head of the rapidly retreating girl.
“Wait till I ketches yer, Lizer,” she shrieked91, with a volley of oaths, “I’ll break yer ’ead for ye!”
Lizer responded with a shrill laugh of disdain92, and vanished through the shaky door, which she closed after her.
When she had disappeared Mother Guttersnipe took a drink from the broken cup, and, gathering all her greasy cards together in a business-like way, looked insinuatingly93 at Calton, with a suggestive leer.
“It’s the future ye want unveiled, dearie?” she croaked, rapidly shuffling94 the cards; “an’ old mother ’ull tell — ”
“No she won’t,” interrupted the detective, sharply. “I’ve come on business.”
The old woman started at this, and looked keenly at him from under her bushy eyebrows.
“What ’av the boys been up to now?” she asked, harshly. “There ain’t no swag ’ere this time.”
Just then the sick woman, who had been restlessly tossing on the bed, commenced singing a snatch of the quaint95 old ballad96 of “Barbara Allen” —
“Oh, mither, mither, mak’ my bed, An’ mak’ it saft an’ narrow; Since my true love died for me to-day I’ll die for him to-morrow.”
“Shut up, cuss you!” yelled Mother Guttersnipe, viciously, “or I’ll knock yer bloomin’ ’ead orf,” and she seized the square bottle as if to carry out her threat; but, altering her mind, she poured some of its contents into the cup, and drank it off with avidity.
“The woman seems ill,” said Calton, casting a shuddering97 glance at the stretcher.
“So she are,” growled98 Mother Guttersnipe, angrily. “She ought to be in Yarrer Bend, she ought, instead of stoppin’ ’ere an’ singin’ them beastly things, which makes my blood run cold. Just ’ear ’er,” she said, viciously, as the sick woman broke out once more —
“Oh, little did my mither think, When first she cradled me, I’d die sa far away fra home, Upon the gallows tree.”
“Yah!” said the old woman, hastily, drinking some more gin out of the cup. “She’s allays99 a-talkin’ of dyin’ an’ gallers, as if they were nice things to jawr about.”
“Who was that woman who died here three or four weeks ago?” asked Kilsip, sharply.
“‘Ow should I know?” retorted Mother Guttersnipe, sullenly. “I didn’t kill ’er, did I? It were the brandy she drank; she was allays drinkin’, cuss her.”
“Do you remember the night she died?”
“No, I don’t,” answered the beldame, frankly100. “I were drunk — blind, bloomin’, blazin’ drunk — s’elp me.”
“You’re always drunk,” said Kilsip.
“What if I am?” snarled101 the woman, seizing her bottle. “You don’t pay fur it. Yes, I’m drunk. I’m allays drunk. I was drunk last night, an’ the night before, an’ I’m a-goin’ to git drunk to-night” — with an impressive look at the bottle — “an’ to-morrow night, an’ I’ll keep it up till I’m rottin’ in the grave.”
Calton shuddered102, so full of hatred103 and suppressed malignity104 was her voice, but the detective merely shrugged105 his shoulders.
“More fool you,” he said, briefly106. “Come now, on the night the ‘Queen,’ as you call her, died, there was a gentleman came to see her?”
“So she said,” retorted Mother Guttersnipe; “but, lor, I dunno anythin’, I were drunk.”
“Who said — the ‘Queen?’”
“No, my gran’darter, Sal. The ‘Queen,’ sent ’er to fetch the toff to see ’er cut ’er lucky. Wanted ’im to look at ’is work, I s’pose, cuss ’im; and Sal prigged some paper from my box,” she shrieked, indignantly; “prigged it w’en I were too drunk to stop ’er?”
The detective glanced at Calton, who nodded to him with a gratified expression on his face. They were right as to the paper having been stolen from the Villa75 at Toorak.
“You did not see the gentleman who came?” said Kilsip, turning again to the old hag.
“Not I, cuss you,” she retorted, politely. “‘E came about ’arf-past one in the morning, an’ you don’t expects we can stop up all night, do ye?”
“Half-past one o’clock,” repeated Calton, quickly. “The very time. Is this true?”
“Wish I may die if it ain’t,” said Mother Guttersnipe, graciously. “My gran’darter Sal kin3 tell ye.”
“Where is she?” asked Kilsip, sharply.
At this the old woman threw back her head, and howled dismay.
“She’s ’ooked it,” she wailed108, drumming on the ground with her feet. “Gon’ an’ left ’er pore old gran’ an’ joined the Army, cuss ’em, a-comin’ round an’ a-spilin’ business.”
Here the woman on the bed broke out again —
“Since the flowers o’ the forest are a’ wed18 awa.”
“‘Old yer jawr,” yelled Mother Guttersnipe, rising, and making a dart107 at the bed. “I’ll choke the life out ye, s’elp me. D’y want me to murder ye, singin’ ’em funeral things?”
Meanwhile the detective was talking rapidly to Mr. Calton.
“The only person who can prove Mr. Fitzgerald was here between one and two o’clock,” he said, quickly, “is Sal Rawlins, as everyone else seems to have been drunk or asleep. As she has joined the Salvation109 Army, I’ll go to the barracks the first thing in the morning and look for her.”
“I hope you’ll find her,” answered Calton, drawing a long breath. “A man’s life hangs on her evidence.”
They turned to go, Calton having first given Mother Guttersnipe some loose silver, which she seized on with an avaricious110 clutch.
“You’ll drink it, I suppose?” said the barrister, shrinking back from her.
“Werry likely,” retorted the hag, with a repulsive grin, tying the money up in a piece of her dress, which she tore off for the purpose. “I’m a forting to the public-’ouse, I am, an’ it’s the on’y pleasure I ’ave in my life, cuss it.”
The sight of money had a genial111 effect on her nature, for she held the candle at the head of the stairs, as they went down, so that they should not break their heads. As they arrived safely, they saw the light vanish, and heard the sick woman singing, “The Last Rose of Summer.”
The street door was open, and, after groping their way along the dark passage, with its pitfalls112, they found themselves in the open street.
“Thank heaven,” said Calton, taking off his hat, and drawing a long breath. “Thank heaven we are safely out of that den55!”
“At all events, our journey has not been wasted,” said the detective, as they walked along. “We’ve found out where Mr. Fitzgerald was on the night of the murder, so he will be safe.”
“That depends upon Sal Rawlins,” answered Calton, gravely; “but come, let us have a glass of brandy, for I feel quite ill after my experience of low life.”
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