The String of Pearls (1850), p. 703

"I don't think it," said the woman.
At this moment, the child began to cry violently.
"Oh, confound you for a brat!" said Todd, "I wish it was only safe to throttle you."
"Is that your child?" said one of the officers.
"Oh, yes—yes," said the young mother, and hastening into the cottage, she placed a chair by the side of the cot, and began to rock it to and fro, singing while she did so, to lull the child to sleep.
"She will keep her word," thought Todd. "I feel confident that she will keep her word, now, with me."
"You look all round the garden, while I take a peep about the house," said the principal officer.
"Oh, I am lost!" moaned Todd. "I am surely lost now! If the house should be searched well, so obvious a place of concealment as a cupboard will not escape them. All is lost now, indeed."
He almost gave up all thought, now, of keeping life or liberty, and he waited only for the fatal moment when the officers should approach and place their hands upon that cupboard door to open it. The child still cried, and the mother sang to it.

"'Sleep, sleep, little baby—
Oh, sleep all the day;
The sunshine is hiding,
The birds fly away.
Away, away—far away.
The sunshine is hiding,
The birds fly away—"'

"Hilloa! What cupboard is that behind the child's cot?"

"'And when they return
You may open your eyes.'

"Oh, it's where we keep our best crockery. Don't disturb the child—I do think it is sickening with the measles."

"'And see how the sunset
Is gilding the skies,
Away, away—far away.
And see how the sunset
Is gilding the skies.'"

"Have you found him in the garden? I shall be almost out of my wits, now, till my husband comes home. Who is it that you are looking for, and pray what has he done? He would need to be clever, indeed, to come m here without my knowing it; and as for the garden, why, I was hanging out the clothes there for the last half hour, I tell you."
"Oh, he's not here," said the officer. "It would be no bad thing, marm, for any one who could lend a helping hand to find him."
"Ah, indeed?"
"Yes. You have heard of Todd, the murderer? Well, that's the man we are after and we have every reason to think that he is somewhere about here, and it is a large reward that is offered for him, I can tell you."
"Ah! I should like to get it."
"Not a doubt of it. Good-day, marm. If you should see any suspicious-looking fellow about the fields, just give notice of it in some sort of a way, if you can, for you may depend upon it, it will be Todd."
"Oh, yes, I will. How very fractious this little thing is to-day, to be sure. I hardly ever knew it to be so before."
"Ah, well, they will be so, at times. But I'm off. Mind, now, you get the reward if you see anything of Todd."
"Oh, yes. Trust me for that."