Without inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. Their chit-chat stopped when they reached the bench. . Following him, and acting out of instinct rather than intent, Melusine took a firm grasp of the gilt frame with both hands, lifted it high in the air and, with a shrieking curse, brought it down hard. Every care had been taken of it, as well as of himself, by the humane inmates of the house in which he had sought shelter. "Oh! nothing at all," answered Jack, sneeringly, "though this room's as much mine as yours, for that matter. Nevertheless, relief washed over her, her body rejoicing in the afterglow of twenty years of tension released. Though a thief, Jack Sheppard is a man of his word.
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