“Mr. 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. “We have,” he said, “to be the utmost friends. She slipped into bed and
struggled to stay awake until she heard Cathy and Larry
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stirring. Yet he’s been here for six years, and he’s as much a fixture as that
sham mahogany sideboard. The man’s hand flashed
out, but immediately afterwards an oath and a cry of pain broke from his lips.
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