CHAPTER LXXXVI.
TODD RECEIVES TWO EXTRAORDINARY LETTERS, AND ACTS UPON THEM.
Todd looked the picture of amazement.
“Two letters!” he muttered, “two letters to me, who seldom receive any? To me who have no acquaintances—no relations? Bah! It must be some mistake, or perhaps, after all, some infernal nonsense about the parish.”
He tore open the last received one, and read as follows:—
“Colonel Jeffery informs Sweeney Todd that, although from a variety of reasons he may not think proper to prosecute him for his recent outrage at his house, he will, upon a repetition of such conduct, at once hand him over to the police.”
Todd’s countenance, during the perusal of this brief note, betrayed a variety of emotions; and when he had concluded it, he let it drop from his hands, and knitting his
