"Not entirely," replied Jonathan, calmly; "though I shouldn't be ashamed of it if
it were. Aha!" he
continued, producing a short silver staff, which he carried constantly about with
him, and uttering a terrible imprecation, "I see you're confounded. “Not a bit. No matter how much you tell me,
you will always keep something back. Well, I told aunt. Sepulchre's church struck one, on the eventful night of the 10th of
June, (to which it will not be necessary to recur,) a horseman, mounted on a
powerful charger, and followed at a respectful distance by an attendant, galloped
into the open space fronting Newgate, and directed his course towards a house in
the Old Bailey. He was in evening dress: swallow-tailed coat and white tie. It was precisely two o'clock on the morning of Whit-monday, the 25th of May
1724, when the remarkable escape before detailed was completed: and, though it
wanted full two hours to daybreak, the glimmer of a waning moon prevented it
from being totally dark. He smothered a laugh.
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