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Jack Sheppard

CHAPTER X
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It was like the grin of a fiend, and made my flesh creep on my bones.

When the prisoner was removed from the dock, we met Jonathan as we passed through the yard.

He stopped us, and, addressing Jack in a taunting tone, said, 'Well, I've been as good as my word!'-- 'True,' replied Sheppard; 'and I'll be as good as mine!' And so they parted." "And I hope he will, if it's anything to Jonathan's disadvantage," muttered Mrs.Spurling, half aside.
"I'm surprised Mr.Wild hasn't been to inquire after him to-day," observed Langley; "it's the first time he's missed doing so since the trial." "He's gone to Enfield after Blueskin, who has so long eluded his vigilance," rejoined Austin.

"Quilt Arnold called this morning to say so.

Certain information, it seems, has been received from a female, that Blueskin would be at a flash-ken near the Chase at five o'clock to-day, and they're all set out in the expectation of nabbing him." "Mr.Wild had a narrow escape lately, in that affair of Captain Darrell," observed Shotbolt.
"I don't exactly know the rights of that affair," rejoined Griffin, with some curiosity.
"Nor any one else, I suspect," answered Ireton, winking significantly.
"It's a mysterious transaction altogether.


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