“Do I understand you then to refuse my offer?” he asked Anna. It was bare of any furnishings. How she hated talking of the man who was
responsible for her being brought into the world. 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. It was not the
type of household where one could come and go at all
hours, for this she was glad. "
So saying, he descended a short spiral staircase, and, entering a long stone
gallery, from which several other passages branched, took one of them, and after
various turnings—for he was familiar with all the intricacies of the prison—
arrived at the cell of which he was in search. The young man opposite was straining his ears to listen to
their conversation. That's the kind,
my friend, that always fall soft.
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