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The Mississippi Bubble

CHAPTER XVII
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Carries his shoulders stooped, and is of mean appearance.
"WESTON, High Sheriff.
Done at Newgate prison, this 21 July." Yet though the authorities of the law made full search in London, and indeed in other of the principal cities of England, they got no word of the escaped prisoner.
The clouded dawn which broke over the Thames below the Pool might have told its own story.

There sat upon the deck of the good ship Polly Greenway, outbound from Thames' mouth, this same John Law.

He regarded idly the busy scenes of the shipping about him.

His gaze, dull and listless, looked without joy upon the dawn, without inquiry upon the far horizon.

For the first time in all his life John Law dropped his head between his hands.
Not so Mary Connynge.


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