‘Pray you, do me this one little service, and do
not ask me why. Sheppard, struggling to escape, and holding the infant
at arm's length; "have mercy on this helpless innocent!"
And the child, alarmed by the strife, added its feeble cries to its mother's shrieks. "Her ladyship—" faltered the attendant. A moment more and he would have been crushed beneath the ponderous
board, when a slight but strong arm arrested its descent. Beneath these prints, a cluster of hobnails, driven into the wall, formed certain
letters, which, if properly deciphered, produced the words, "Paul Groves,
cobler;" and under the name, traced in charcoal, appeared the following record
of the poor fellow's fate, "Hung himsel in this rum for luv off licker;"
accompanied by a graphic sketch of the unhappy suicide dangling from a beam. No doubt he knew
enough of his world to recognise that he stood little chance against the word of a
major of militia.
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