He kept his keen eyes steadily fixed on Thames, as if awaiting to be addressed.
"Your audacity passes belief," cried the latter, as soon as his surprise would allow him utterance.

"If you have contrived to break out of your confinement, villain, this is the last place where you ought to show yourself." "And, therefore, the first I would visit," replied Jack, boldly.

"But, pardon my intrusion.

I was _resolved_ to see you.

And, fearing you might not come to me, I forced my way hither, even with certainty of discomposing your friends." "Well, villain!" replied Thames, "I know not the motive of your visit.
But, if you have come to surrender yourself to justice, it is well.