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Jack Sheppard's escape from Newgate on the night of the 15th of October was
not discovered till the following morning; for although the intelligence was
brought by several parties to the Lodge in the course of the night, Austin, who
was the officer in attendance, paid no attention to them. This was some satisfaction to the poor fellow, who was dreadfully frightened, as
indeed he might well be, it being the opinion of the jailers and others who
afterwards examined the place, that Jack had accomplished, single-handed, in a
few hours, and, as far as it could be ascertained, with imperfect implements,
what it would have taken half a dozen men several days, provided with proper
tools, to effect. It seemed to her at this moment that there was nothing
left for her to do. ’
‘Entertained, he says!’
‘Intrigued, then,’ amended Gerald equably, although truth to tell he was
enjoying the mystery enormously. ”
“You came to tell me this?”
“I came for you,” he declared fiercely. Yeah, I’m thirty-seven. He stepped back further. Boldly he turned the
knob of a certain door and entered. It’s
best. But things that a girl of sixteen may do in short skirts are not things to be done
by a young lady of twenty-one in fancy dress and an opera-cloak, and just as she
was coming unaided to an adequate realization of this, she discovered Mr. . ” Inwardly, she laughed at the idea of
him trying to beat on her, flailing, his arms akimbo. ‘Is it soft, the way you seize me from
behind? Parbleu, my heart it is flown from my chest! Boom, boom, it goes, even
now.
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