In Bad Company, and other stories

part in the interests of law and order. They manned the gas-works, and,

amid furnace-heat and grime, provided the necessary labour, all unused as they were to toil under such conditions. The cities were _not_ wrapped in darkness, and the streets were _not_ made ready for the spoil by the burglar, the garrotter, and the thief. A line of wool teams was driven down the principal street...