"You can do so. Stanley, having pretended
to linger to smoke, fled suddenly up-stairs to petrography, and when Veronica
tapped he answered through the locked door, “Go away, Vee! I’m busy,” and
made a lapidary’s wheel buzz loudly. ”
“You can’t be that,” said Ann Veronica, wisely. "What's that you're taking to Sir Rowland Trenchard's?"
"Only a box, Sir," answered Sheppard, emptying the glass. You know that I am
practically destitute, without means or any certain knowledge of where my next
meal is coming from. Stanley, standing up with a
sudden geniality and rubbing his hands together. I will arise myself. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife. To this Jack replied, that he should be perfectly
contented, provided he might have a small allowance of gin. Accordingly, having armed himself with various weapons, including a
stout oaken staff then ordinarily borne by the watch, and put a coil of rope and a
gag in his pocket, to be ready in case of need, he set out, about ten o'clock, on
the expedition.
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