Jack appealed to the new auditors, and again detailed his story, but with no better success than heretofore.

His statement was treated with derision.

Having seen him heavily ironed, and placed in the Condemned Hold, Jonathan recrossed the street.
He found Abraham on guard as he had left him.
"Has any one been here ?" he asked.
"No von," replied the Jew.
"That's well," replied Wild, entering the house, and fastening the door.
"And now to dispose of our dead.

Why, Nab, you shake as if you'd got an ague ?" he added, turning to the Jew, whose teeth chattered audibly.
"I haven't quite recovered the fright I got in the Vell-Hole," replied Abraham.
On returning to the audience-chamber, Jonathan found the inanimate body of Thames Darrell lying where he had left it; but, on examining it, he remarked that the pockets were turned inside out, and had evidently been rifled.

Startled by this circumstance, he looked around, and perceived that the trap-door,--which has been mentioned as communicating with a secret staircase,--was open.