2.05: Lord Lionel's indecent proposal ... Evil Count Lerno's moneymaking scheme ... the perils of raising the dead ... a robber's song!

IN WHICH —

0:04:15: ARTICLE from the TERRIFIC REGISTER, Page 14:

• The prince of Saxony, we are told, asked a student of magic to raise the spirit of his rich deceased uncle so he could ask him where he hid his treasure. It did not go quite as the prince had hoped ...

0:14:00: THE BLACK BAND, Ch. 15:

• We see Lolota Vizzini, the Star of the Ballet, relaxing at her Arlington Street house, being sad because Lord Lionel (who, you remember, became an accessory to his brother's murder to inherit his estate) didn’t come to the opera that night. She has clearly developed a bad case for him. Then Lord Lionel races up to her house in a cabriolet! He has a proposal for her … come run away with me to some foreign land and we will pose as husband and wife! Will she say yes to this scandalous proposal? But soft: whose step is that outside the chamber door? Is that Colonel Mephistopholes?

0:34:30: ROSE MORTIMER; or, THE BALLET-GIRL'S REVENGE, Ch. 4 :

• In this chapter, we see Count Lerno in his drawing-room preparing for a fancy party. He’s steaming open packs of playing-cards and marking them. Then we cut to the party. We meet a man named Captain Roper, who seems to be working with Count Lerno; and a baronet named Sir Harold King, who just inherited a fortune, and he seems to be the mark. But he’s not as dumb as he seems, and he’s looking hard at Captain Roper … does he suspect him? Will he catch on to the swindle? What will happen if he does?

PLUS —

• Learn the meaning of "owlers," "out-and-outers," "rattling gloaks," "dub the jigger," "on the cross," and a few other words of highway-robber slang, and ...
• A thieves' song (so we are told) about the "New Dancing Academy," the treadmill installed at Brixton Prison in 1818.

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

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