" Neither spinster noticed the reluctance in the
tones. ” Lucy commented. ‘I have not asked for this trouble from anyone. ”
“I’ve been certain of it for years. Jonathan, meanwhile, maintained profound secrecy as to his hopes of capturing
the fugitive; and when Jack was brought back to Newgate on the Sunday
evening, his arrival was wholly unexpected. But his gloom appeared to be occasioned
by remorse, rather than sorrow. On the same day, moreover, which, by a
curious coincidence, was the birthday of the Chevalier de Saint George, mobs
were collected together in the streets, and the health of that prince was publicly
drunk under the title of James the Third; while, in many country towns, the bells
were rung, and rejoicings held, as if for a reigning monarch:—the cry of the
populace almost universally being, "No King George, but a Stuart!"
The adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George, we have said, were lavish in
promises to their proselytes. His face turned a dark
crimson. We will go to Ostend by the early morning boat and choose a hiding
place from there. But the crowning glory of Jonathan,
that which raised him above all his predecessors in iniquity, and clothed this
name with undying notoriety—was to come. "
"Damnation!" cried Jonathan, stamping his foot with uncontrollable rage. "I can't help thinking of it, Sir," answered the widow. ’
‘Then Gérard may come back,’ Melusine cried involuntarily on a sudden
rising hope. ‘You have something more to tell me?’
Jack grinned.
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