. ”
“You did not notice anything which may have escaped this lady? You saw no
one leave the flats?”
“No one,” Brendon answered. ’
‘But he’s a major of militia, miss. He reappeared in street clothes, his cropped hair not
even damp from the shower, fresh-faced and sweetsmelling. She said that she couldn’t stand Mike. In one of the big gates was a
little door, and she rapped at this. It was still profoundly dark; but the wind, which had
begun to blow with some violence, chased the clouds rapidly across the heavens,
and dispersed the vapours hanging nearer the earth. Without
inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to
state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could
confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he
determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he
shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a
project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting
Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. “Lucy.
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