CHAPTER XVIII.
How Jack Sheppard broke out of the Cage at Willesden.
The heart-piercing scream uttered by Mrs.Sheppard after the commission of the robbery in Willesden church was productive of unfortunate consequences to her son.

Luckily, she was bereft of consciousness, and was thus spared the additional misery of witnessing what afterwards befell him.

Startled by the cry, as may be supposed, the attention of the whole congregation was drawn towards the quarter whence it proceeded.

Amongst others, a person near the door, roused by the shriek, observed a man make his exit with the utmost precipitation.

A boy attempted to follow; but as the suspicions of the lookers-on were roused by the previous circumstances, the younger fugitive was seized and detained.