The
detective backed out slowly and closed the door without sound. What has become of the other?"
"Why, surely you don't mean Jack Sheppard?" cried the woollen-draper in
surprise. On the contrary, he was a universal favourite,
and numbered amongst his intimate acquaintances the choicest spirits of the
time,—Pope, Swift, Arbuthnot, and "all the better brothers. When I heard about Larry I was going
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to call you, I was, but, well, there is no excuse, is there? I
acted like I was afraid of you, afraid that I liked you, so I
ignored you like a coward. "I release you from your promise. Having already expressed our
determination not to betray any confidences of this sort, which, however
interesting to the parties concerned, could not possibly be so to others, we shall
omit also the "love passages," and proceeding to such topics as may have general
interest, take up the discourse at the point when Thames Darrell expressed his
determination of starting for Manchester, as soon as Jack Sheppard's
examination had taken place. Well, I don't blame you on that ground. Luckily, Sir James was so much
engrossed by his own task, that both the remark and gesture escaped him. After
the usual laconic greetings, he drew him on one side. "I'll cut down him who opposes me. "But if my career were truly exhibited, it must be as
one long struggle against destiny in the shape of—"
"Jonathan Wild," interposed Gay.
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