‘What happened, ma’am?’ enquired Gerald gently. ’
‘Yes, but in fact you’ve offered me far more entertainment than any French
spy could have done. “Thank you,” he said, “for letting me back. The guards had great difficulty in preserving a clear
passage without resorting to severe measures, for the tide, which poured upon
them behind, around, in front, and at all sides, was almost irresistible. But you must tell her. On that morning the death warrant had arrived from Windsor, ordering
Sheppard for execution, (since his capture by Jonathan Wild in Bedlam, as
related in a former chapter, Jack had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death,) together with three other malefactors on the following Friday. 9
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THE UNTIMELY DEMISE OF RAY PLOTE
Later that night after the dishes were washed and the
garbage taken out, Lucy and the Beck's natural daughter
retired to their shared bedroom. Sheppard, sinking
backwards upon the pallet. She was glad to join in
the stream of hurrying homeward workers that was now welling out of a
thousand places of employment, and to imitate their driven, preoccupied haste. She looked up and said, a little
breathlessly, “I’m sorry, aunt, but I don’t think I can. “Don’t!”
she said, weakly, as he had bent down and put one arm about her and seized her
hands with his disengaged hand and kissed her—kissed her almost upon her lips. "That's all right.
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