023: Can Minna bring Tobias back? — The highwayman's orphan protege finds a home — is poor Flora vampire-cursed? — Spring-Heel'd Jack in a tight spot — the millionaire makes a snap decision!

A THIEVES' SONG TRANSLATED —

• The beak looked big, and shook his head, heigh-ho the beak!

• He wished those family coves were dead, that honest folk might get their bread; heigh-ho the beak!
• The family cove, he grinned a grin, heigh-ho the cove!
• He said 'to prig I think no sin, for sure a Romany must have tin'; heigh-ho the cove!

Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!

0:04:30: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 48 —

• Poor Tobias Ragg’s dingbat mother has made things worse instead of better. But then the colonel learns Tobias has a sweetheart named Minna Grey, and so he asks old Mrs. Ragg to bring her. Will she be able to restore Tobias’s sanity?

0:21:45: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 10—

• Highwayman Dick Turpin and his pretty rescuee make it out of the neighborhood as Dick racks his brain for a place he can bring her. Then he thinks of his portly old pal Tom Davis, landlord of the Hand and Keys Inn near Hornsey Wood! Will they make it there in safety?

0:36:30: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 10—

• The tomb-raiding party has just arrived back at the house when the sound of Flora’s pistol shot smites upon their ears. They rush to the house — and find a scene of much confusion ... and a new character joins our dramatis personae: Flora’s Intended, Charles Holland, has just arrived! But can she allow him to share her destiny, now that she has fallen victim to a vampire?

0:50:15: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK Ch. 10—

• Two of the drunks from the bar next door to the pigeon house see Ellen Folder’s bundle of work hanging from the window and work out a plan to steal it! Will they succeed? And what will happen to Ellen if they do?

1:08:00: THE BLACK BAND Ch. 10—

• Robert Merton, the self-made millionaire who has fallen for Lady Edith Vandeleur and is soon to marry her, is having some second thoughts. Will they enable him to avoid the terrible matrimonial mistake he is about to embark upon? Or ... will they cause him to double down, and make things worse? Bet you can guess ...

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