Many other
expedients occurred to her; but after making several ineffectual attempts to get
into the Mint unobserved, they were all abandoned. And as these things
should always be treated as matters of business, I'll just draw up a memorandum
of our arrangement. ‘Oh, my God, Melusine, what have I done?’
Melusine shook her head. ”
“Then you will really give it all up!” he exclaimed. He filled his
pipe slowly. Just now my best ones are all taken. ”
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
IN THE MOUNTAINS
Part 1
Next day Ann Veronica and Capes felt like newborn things. 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. There was little more here than a sideboard, a chest for the vestments, and a
simple wooden chair. A sprinkling of callow youths,
and a couple of pronounced young Jews, who were talking loudly together in
some unintelligible jargon of the City. "
"It's Jonathan Wild," returned the widow, endeavouring to alarm him. I had
never dreamed of such a friend as you. Wild, he asserted, had robbed him of a large
sum of money, and till it was restored he would never plead. She had better escape if she can.
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