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 through the gut into Shoreditch High Street, where a stand was made until Fag Dawson dropped with a shoemaker's knife sticking under his armpit. Then the Ranns left, with most of the Learys after them, and Fag Dawson was carried to a chemist's by the police, never to floor a Rann again. For he was chived in the left lung.

Thus the fight ended. For a faction fight in the Jago, with a few broken heads and ribs and an odd knife wound here and there—even with a death in the hospital from kicks or what not—was all very well; but when it came to homicide in the open High Street the police drew the line and entered the Jago in force. Ordinarily, a peep between the "Posties" was all the supervision the Jago had, although three policemen had been seen to walk the length of Old Jago Street together; and there were raids in force for special captures.