"I took you for one who wouldn't hesitate to avail himself of any advantage
chance might throw in his way," returned the thief-taker, coldly. We mustn’t make it so. Run along while I rig up and get the part in my hair straight. Several arrests of importance have been intrusted to him; but, forewarned,
forearmed, we have constantly baffled his schemes;—ha! ha! Jonathan's a
devilish clever fellow. "
The carpenter, upon whom no part of this hurried dialogue had been lost, now
made his appearance, and having obtained from Terence all the information
which that personage could impart respecting the perilous situation of Thames,
he declared himself ready to start to Saint Giles's at once, and ran back to the
room for his hat and stick; expressing his firm determination, as he pocketed his
constable's staff with which he thought it expedient to arm himself, of being
direfully revenged upon the thief-taker: a determination in which he was
strongly encouraged by his wife. “I won’t pretend,” he said, “that this is an accident. Her greatest exploit
was the howling before the mid-day meal. ”
Annabel laughed gaily.
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