How Jack Sheppard was brought back to Newgate
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XXVIII. Another horseman followed quickly at the
heels of the first; but just as he passed the spot where Jack stood, his steed
missed its footing, and fell. ”
“But there is not a shadow of evidence against you,” he objected. It’s just because all that side of your life hasn’t fairly
begun. ’
‘Think Valade will come back here then?’
‘Melusine thinks so,’ Gerald said, pausing at the top of the stairs. ”
That phrase about dragging the truth through swamps of nonsense she
remembered from Capes. He conveyed not only his sense of the extreme want of
correctitude in their unsanctioned meetings, but also that, so far as he was
concerned, this irregularity mattered not at all, that he had flung—and kept on
flinging—such considerations to the wind. Everything was
done in the most legal and imposing way, but the whole thing was a fraud.
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