Chapter 29: The Consultation of Colonel Jeffery with the Magistrate

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​​⁠The advice which his friend had given to Colonel Jeffery was certainly the very best that could have been tendered to him; and, under the whole of these circumstances, it would have been something little short of absolute folly to have ventured into the shop of Sweeney Todd without previously taking every possible precaution to ensure the safety of so doing. Sir Richard was within when they reache