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Updated: June 27, 2025
If you hang Jack Sheppard, you'll cut off the flower o' the purfession. But I'll not believe it of you. It's all very well to read him a lesson, and teach him obedience; but you've gone far enough for that." "Not quite," rejoined the thief-taker, significantly. "Well," growled Blueskin, "you've had my offer." "And you my warning," retorted Wild. "Good night!"
He bent over Oliver, and repeated the inquiry; but finding him really incapable of understanding the question; and knowing that his not replying would only infuriate the magistrate the more, and add to the severity of his sentence; he hazarded a guess. 'He says his name's Tom White, your worship, said the kind-hearted thief-taker. 'Oh, he won't speak out, won't he? said Fang.
"We'll give them the slip yet, and hang that butcherly thief-taker upon his own gibbet." "Be silent dog," cried Jonathan. And with his clenched hand he struck him a violent blow in the face. For the first time, perhaps, in his life, he repented of his brutality. The blow was scarcely dealt, when, with a bound like that of a tiger, Blueskin sprang upon him.
Burnworth loaded his pistol under the table, and having primed it, goes with it ready cocked into the room where Jonathan's foreman was, with a quartern of brandy and a glass before him. Hark ye, says Edward, you fellow, who have served your time to a thief-taker; what business might you have with me or my company? Do you think to gain a hundred or two by swearing our lives away?
This man was something more than a thief-taker and a tracker of criminals. Pinto chose to regard him as the close friend of Maisie White, and as such, his rival. "And to what are we indebted for this visit?" asked the bland colonel. "The chief wants to see you." "The chief?" "Sir Stanley Belcom. Being the chief of our department I should have thought you had heard of him."
The latter appeared to contain several papers, which Jack carefully put by, in the hope that they might turn out of importance in a scheme of vengeance which he meditated against the thief-taker. He then mounted the jaded hack, which had long since regained its legs, and was quietly browsing the grass at the road-side, and, striking spurs into its side, rode off.
The famous thief-taker might have stood for what was latest in fashionable dress, with every detail of hat and glove and cravat and boot worked out. There befell no touch of vulgarity; the effect was as retiringly genteel as though the taste providing it belonged to a Howard or a Vere de Vere and based itself upon ten unstained centuries of patricianism.
The moon had arisen, and everything could be as plainly distinguished as during the day. A thin mist lay on the river, giving the few craft moving about in it a ghostly look. As they approached London Bridge, the thief-taker whispered Van Galgebrok, who acted as steersman, to make for a particular arch near the Surrey shore.
They were Jonathan Wild and Quilt Arnold. "Ah!" exclaimed Jack, starting to his feet. "Just in time," said the thief-taker. "You are my prisoner, Jack." "You shall take my life first," rejoined Sheppard. And, as he was about to put himself into a posture of defence, his mother clasped him in her arms. "They shall not harm you, my love!" she exclaimed. The movement was fatal to her son.
The Jay, usually his first assailant, like a thief employed as a thief-taker, attacks him with great zeal and animation; the Chickadee, the Nuthatch, and the small Thrushes peck at his head and eyes; while other birds, less bold, fly round him, and by their vociferation encourage his assailants and help to terrify their victim.
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