The account of the discovery of Sir Rowland's murder filled Winifred with
alarm; but when she learnt what had befallen Thames—how he had been
stricken down by the thief-taker's bludgeon, and left for dead, she uttered a
piercing scream, fainted, and would have fallen, if Jack had not caught her in his
arms. He beheld a tall gaunt man, his brown face corrugated like a winter's road, grim,
stony. "He hash a long journey
before him—ha! ha!"
"Peace!" cried Jonathan. ToC
In a hollow in the meadows behind the prison whence Jack Sheppard had
escaped,—for, at this time, the whole of the now thickly-peopled district north of
Clerkenwell Bridewell was open country, stretching out in fertile fields in the
direction of Islington—and about a quarter of a mile off, stood a solitary hovel,
known as Black Mary's Hole. He occupied one of the smaller houses near the
station. Wood was an old friend of mine—and I recollect seeing Jack when he was
bound 'prentice to him.
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