"However, some one _must_ look after the jail; and they're all gone but me.

It's fortunate we've no more Jack Sheppards, or I should stand but a poor chance.

Well, I don't think they'll any of 'em nab him, that's one comfort." On quitting the Lodge, Wild repaired to his own habitation.

Telling the porter that he would attend to the house himself, he bade him go in search of Jack Sheppard.

There was something in Jonathan's manner, as he issued this command, that struck the man as singular, and he afterwards recalled it.