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She said it to no one else, for the more difficult the enterprise the more determined she was to succeed, and the more secretive she grew as to her measures. In the mean time the outlaw, double-ironed, was confined in the condemned cell, the strongest portion of the county jail. All persons were strictly prohibited from visiting him, except certain of the clergy.
'Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed, cried the phantom, 'not to know that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed! Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!
Why, even I should not be at all afraid of a robber when he is double-ironed and locked up in a cell, and I should enter guarded by a pair of turnkeys!" "I know it, my dear lady, I know it, and I feel that I ought to overcome this weakness or do my duty in its despite." "Yes, and if you would consent to go, Father Gray, I would not mind going with you myself, if that would encourage you any!"
"In June 1757, William Thompson, amidst all the vigilance of this place, in open daylight, and double-ironed, made his escape; notwithstanding an immediate inquiry set on foot, notwithstanding all advertisements, all search, he was never seen or heard of since. If this man escaped unseen through all these difficulties, how easy for Clarke, whom no difficulties opposed.
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