She was practically an outcast, she had not even the ghost of a
plan as to her future, and she had something less than five pounds in her pocket. Taking up a couple of large
stones which lay near, Jack tried to beat the round basils of the fetters into an
oval form, so as to enable him to slip his heels through them. At this juncture, and just as a cuckoo-clock in
the corner struck sis, Jack Sheppard walked into the room, with the packing-case
under his arm. "
"Well, it's mighty fine of you to break your journey in this fashion—for someone
you don't know, a passer-by. "
As he said this, he moved forward a few paces, when, finding his feet glued to
the ground by some adhesive substance, he stooped to feel what it was, but
instantly withdrew his hand, with an exclamation of horror. "
"I dare say no such thing," interposed his better half, authoritatively; "remain
where you are, Sir. Sheppard, raising herself, and looking at him as if her life
depended upon the answer. ‘Is it such a terrible
prospect? I will take care of you—as long as you obey me. I'll have a
peep at him, if I die for it," she muttered, as she went out. There was the cottage she had
inhabited for so many years,—in those fields she had rambled,—at that church
she had prayed. ‘I’m a soldier, missie. “Did you—did you really think that they would take you for a Frenchman?” she
exclaimed. ”
“Perhaps I don’t. "It's all over," groaned Wood, "and perhaps it's as well her senses are gone.
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