After listening
attentively for a short time without drawing breath, he became convinced that his
apprehensions were groundless, and, greatly relieved, sat down upon the chair to
rest himself and prepare for further efforts. This, then,
was the woman from whom Hoddy would not have accepted a cup of water. There haven't been so many ladies in
the Lodge since the days of Claude Du Val, the gentleman highwayman; and
they all declare it'll break their hearts if he's scragged. "
"Deferred!" echoed Sheppard. "Out of the beaten track, with a real
man for an employer? How would that strike you?"
Interest shot into Spurlock's eyes; it spread to his wan face. 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. Wood's.
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