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In half an hour I caught the sound of locks and keys; the door opened, and the head-jailer handed me a jug of water. "Here is something to drink," he said in a rough tone, "and you will have your loaf to-morrow." "Thanks, my good man." "I am not good," was the reply. "The worse for you," I answered, rather sharply. "And this great chain," I added, "is it for me?"
"I offered Jack five guineas as his share," continued Ireton; "but he wouldn't take it himself, and gave it to the poor debtors and felons, who are now drinking it out in the cellar on the Common Side." "Jack's a noble fellow," exclaimed the head-jailer of Clerkenwell Prison, raising his glass; "and, though he played me a scurvy trick, I'll drink to his speedy deliverance." "At Tyburn, eh, Mr.
Here Giaffar interfered, and submitted to the caliph, whether it would not be better that the head-jailer should produce them, which being ordered, that officer presently made his appearance with the four criminals pinioned and bareheaded.
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