"
"My father!" exclaimed Thames, in the utmost astonishment; "let me see it!"
"Here it is," returned Jack, producing a small picture in a case set with brilliants. "I can't say," answered the fellow; "but I'll inquire from the sexton, William
Morgan. Thus died Jack Sheppard. His voice
when he spoke was almost fiercely assertive, but there was an undernote of
nervousness. It’s just that I want to say. "
As this was said, Jack turned with the swiftness of thought, and shortening his
sword, prepared to plunge it into the thief-taker's heart. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. By a tacit agreement they ignored the significant thing between them, ignored
the slipping away of the ground on which they had stood together hitherto. She mounted the stairs of the theatrical agent’s
office with very much less than her usual buoyancy, nor did she find much
encouragement in the general appearance of the room into which she was shown. She wasn’t well-liked really, I think people were jealous of
her. ” Lucy said.
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