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Large hoards of money were discovered, gold and silver plate, cases of watches, and various precious articles. Nothing, in short, portable or valuable was left. Old implements of housebreaking were discovered; and the thief-taker's most hidden depositories were laid bare. The work of plunder over, that of destruction commenced.
Jonathan again seized her, when the door was thrown open, and Thames Darrell, followed by Mr. Wood and several serving-men, all well armed, rushed into the room. A glance sufficed to show the young man how matters stood. He flew to the window, and would have passed his sword through the thief-taker's body, if the latter had not quickly interposed the person of Mrs.
The thief-taker's residence was a large dismal-looking, habitation, separated from the street by a flagged court-yard, and defended from general approach by an iron railing. Even in the daylight, it had a sombre and suspicious air, and seemed to slink back from the adjoining houses, as if afraid of their society.
The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools.
The thief-taker's throat was bound up with thick folds of linen, and his face had a ghastly and cadaverous look, which communicated an undefinable and horrible expression to his glances. Meanwhile, the mob outside had prodigiously increased, and had begun to exhibit some disposition to riot.
Sheppard, vainly trying to discover a gleam of compassion in the thief-taker's inexorable countenance, "Mercy! mercy!" "Pshaw!" rejoined Jonathan. "You should be glad to be made an honest woman." "Oh! let me die," groaned the widow. "I have not many days, perhaps, not many hours to live. But kill me rather than commit this outrage." "That wouldn't answer my purpose," replied Jonathan, savagely.
One of the most noted Thief-takers of that day almost as great a one as Jonathan Wild comes down post, and sets up his Standard at Reading, as though he had been King William on the banks of the Boyne. Thief-taker's orders. He and his Bandogs, ay, and his Grenadiers, might have hunted us through Charlwood Chase until Doomsday but for the treachery of the "Coaleys."
Aware that he should incur the thief-taker's bitterest animosity by what he had done, the watchman, whose wrath against Quilt Arnold had evaporated during the walk, thought it more prudent not to hazard a meeting with his master, till the storm had, in some measure, blown over.
The one thing now was Storri's signal; and with that all hands would go aboard, get up steam, and point the sable cutwater of the Zulu Queen for Washington. Steamboat Dan informed Inspector Val of nothing which the thief-taker's sagacity or vigilance had not anticipated.
Jack Sheppard again sought his pistol, and was only withheld from levelling it at the thief-taker's head, by the hope that he might gather some further information respecting his mother. And he had good reason before long to congratulate himself on his forbearance. "What proof have you of the truth of this story?" inquired Trenchard.
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