For a long time she surveyed a row of towering holly-hocks, as though they
offered an explanation. ”
“You have not seen the evening paper?”
“No. She should leave sooner, but she just could not bear
missing the event. ‘I want a word with you, my lad. I came here
peaceably, and I only ask for a few words with you. They were
hurried before a magistrate, and charged by Jonathan Wild with various
robberies; but, as Jack Sheppard stated that he had most important disclosures to
make, as well as charges to bring forward against his accuser, he was committed
with his female companion to the New Prison in Clerkenwell for further
examination. He would be off her case just as
soon as his fever for her broke and he found a lover, and
she imagined he must have plenty of girls from ritzy
families lining up to choose from. All concerned in the dark transaction must have perished. After all, it is not
long since that a Catholic nun in this country would have had to remain in
hiding. ’
‘Ah, but I have a special reason for doing so this time. But—he was
cleverer than any of you. ”
“I am sure,” Lady Lescelles said, gently, “that the last consideration need not
weigh with you in the least. You refuse me your confidence. Now that she was his, to make or mar, she presented an extraordinary
fascination.
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