The String of Pearls (1850), p. 465

he must have thought, saw him; but he would have staked his life forthwith upon the fact, that no human observation was bent upon his actions; and yet there was some one for whom he entertained the greatest contempt—one whom he would have defied to injure him, gathering up evidence to hang him.
Go on, Lupin. Bury you victim. But don't think yourself so very safe

MRS. LOVETT'S COOK ASTONISHES HER CUSTOMERS, RATHER.{Figure}

just yet. It is an old saying, that "Murder will out." Do you think that yours will prove the exception?
From a recess in the wall Lupin had dragged a coffin. It was an old one and rather rotten, so that by the aid of a small crowbar that he had there—what use did Lupin find for a crowbar in the vaults beneath his chapel? Was it to rip open the coffins and rob even the dead? Well, well—by the aid of this crowbar he soon forced open the lid of the coffin.