The Murderer has his Victim in his Net

Harry Furniss

1910

13.9 x 9 cm, vignetted

Dickens's Master Humphrey's Clock, completes Vol. 6 of the Charles Dickens Library Edition; facing page 39.

"I stole down after him, creeping under certain shrubs which grow in that place. And none but devils know with what terror I, a strong, full-grown man, tracked the footsteps of that baby as he approached the water’s brink."

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