The systematic manner in which this was done made me think that he could not mean to confine himself to two sides of London. He was now fixed on the far east of the northern shore, on the east of the southern shore, and on the south. The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme⁠—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the southwest and west. I went back to Smollet, and asked him if he could tell us if any other boxes had been taken from Carfax.