‘I broke in. "Who is it, Bess?"
"How should I know?" replied Edgeworth Bess. 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. Ennison,” she exclaimed, “is that really you?”
There was no sign of embarrassment in her manner. She had just passed into a little antechamber beyond when she suddenly heard
a faint knocking.
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