When the night of September 30th arrived, Dominica and Guy followed Lachley from his home in Cleveland Street, then lost him for more than an hour in the teeming streets of Wapping. “Where the deuce did he get to?” Guy Pendergast muttered as darkness descended over London’s rooftops.
“Where the devil does he always get to? Wherever it is, I intend to find out!”
“To do that, pet, we’ll have to find him again. Of course, we can always pick him up at Dutfield’s Yard.”
“I plan to videotape much more of his activities this evening than that! We’ll go to Catharine’s doss house,” Dominica decided. “Surely he’ll show up there?” And that was exactly where they caught up to him, in the company of James Maybrick, at long, bloody last.
“We’ll find Eddowes, first, if we can,” Lachley muttered, his voice whispering electronically in Dominica’s ear. “She’s too bloody dangerous to leave wandering the streets any longer.”
Lachley and Maybrick set out, stopping at public house after public house, searching for the doomed Kate Eddowes. Dominica, of course, knew exactly where Eddowes was—at least, where she’d be at eight o’clock, or thereabouts. Lachley wandered, by chance, directly into her path just in time to see events unfold in Aldgate High Street. He watched in open-mouthed disbelief and rising fury as two police constables incarcerated the woman he had waited two entire weeks to kill.
Catharine Eddowes was drunk. So drunk she could hardly stand up. Wailing like a fire engine and giggling, one would’ve thought her a girl of twelve. The sight of a forty-six-year-old prostitute whooping her way into Bishopsgate Police Station, carrying a letter in her pocket that could destroy everything Lachley had worked for, had murdered for, very nearly put the man over the edge. He stood across the street from the police station, hidden in shadows, soaking wet from the gusting rain, and closed his gloved hands into fists so tight, his hands trembled. The look of murderous rage in his face left Dominica momentarily shaken. When he stepped close to Maybrick, the words he hissed at his accomplice sent a shiver up her back.
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