In
consequence of the encouragement thus offered to dishonesty, and the security
afforded to crime, this quarter of the Borough of Southwark was accounted (at
the period of our narrative) the grand receptacle of the superfluous villainy of the
metropolis. It is possible she is dangerous, and the police
are looking into several cold murder cases where she may
have been involved. Hitherto she had seen it chiefly in
pictures and other works of art, incidentally, and as a thing taken out of life. ‘I’ll play you at your own game,’ he growled, holding the foreshortened foil in
place with rigid control. Tomorrow you will feel like a freed woman. It was a perfect windless spring day, a Sunday. ‘Alors, what advantages?’
‘But think,’ he said earnestly, moving a little closer. Go on and tell me. If there is, it’s a mere wrapping—there’s better
underneath. Sheppard; "never! never!"
"Halloa! what's this?" demanded Blueskin, springing to his feet. "Look at him!"
Ruth looked. "
"You may rest assured he does not," rejoined Kneebone, emphatically, "but I am
at a loss to understand in what way your father proposes to assist him. But the relief
from the strain of her immediate necessities was immense. ToC
Jack Sheppard's first object was to free himself from his handcuffs.
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