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In the Irish Brigade

CHAPTER 9: An Escape From Newgate
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Of course, I did not come straight to the spot, but went about promiscuously.
"For anything I could tell, there might be someone in the towers watching me.

Then I saw a hand drop a little white parcel, and I found it without much trouble and went off with it.

It was as much as I could do, to keep myself from running like a madman, for I felt somehow sure that it was you who had dropped it, but of course, it was not until I got it read for me that I was certain.
"After that, your honour, it was all easy enough.

You told me what to do, and I did it.

There was a little difficulty about the saw, but I got it through one of the chair men, who told me, when I asked him, that he had the acquaintance of some cracksmen--more shame to him--and that he could get such a thing as I wanted through them.


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