The order was promptly obeyed, and the horses proceeded at a furious pace along the Edgeware Road.
Half an hour afterwards the body of Jack was carefully examined.

It had been cut down before life was extinct, but a ball from one of the soldiers had pierced his heart.
Thus died Jack Sheppard.
That night a grave was dug in Willesden churchyard, next to that in which Mrs.Sheppard had been interred.

Two persons, besides the clergyman and sexton, alone attended the ceremony.

They were a young man and an old one, and both appeared deeply affected.

The coffin was lowered into the grave, and the mourners departed.