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The words were hardly out of his mouth when the back of Wild's blade struck the villain's wrist. Uttering a cry of pain, Roche dropped his weapon. Then he staggered back and picked up a stone. Crack! One of the miners fired and the man reeled, and, letting go the stone, dropped to the ground, dead. Our hero now went into the cave, for the twelve men who had survived were all tied hard and fast.
"Why, surely you can't be in earnest, Captain. You wouldn't rob Mr. Wild's chief janizary?" "I'd rob Mr. Wild himself if I met him," retorted Jack. "Come, off with it, sirrah, or I'll blow out your brains, in the first place, and strip you afterwards." "Well, rather than you should commit so great a crime, Captain, here it is," replied Quilt, handing him the garment in question. "Anything else?"
On Wild's departure the count hastened out of London, and was well on his way to Dover when Wild knocked at his door. Heartfree, wounded and robbed, had only the count's note left, and this was returned to him as worthless, inquiries having proved that the count had run away.
Besides, there are greater rascals than Jack Sheppard at liberty, Sir Rowland." Sir Rowland made no reply, but angrily quickened his pace. The pair then descended Saffron-hill, threaded Field-lane, and, entering Holborn, passed over the little bridge which then crossed the muddy waters of Fleet-ditch, mounted Snow-hill, and soon drew in the bridle before Jonathan Wild's door.
Catching hold of his chin, he bent back the neck, while with his left hand he pulled out a clasp knife, which he opened with his teeth, and grasping Wild's head with his arm, notwithstanding his resistance, cut deeply into his throat. The folds of a thick muslin neckcloth in some degree protected him, but the gash was desperate.
The watch was found upon him, which, together with Wild's information, was more than sufficient to commit him to Newgate. In the evening Wild and the rest of those who had been drinking with Blueskin met at the tavern, where nothing was to be seen but the profoundest submission to their leader.
Because of the defection of his Sikh auxiliaries and the faint-heartedness of his sepoys, Wild's efforts to cross the threshold of the Khyber had failed, and with the tidings of his failure there came to Sale the information that the effort for his relief must be indefinitely postponed.
'In no country, wrote Sir T. Smith, a distinguished lawyer of the time, 'do malefactors go to execution more intrepidly than in England'; and assuredly, buoyed up by custom and the approval of their fellows, Wild's victims made a brave show at the gallows. Nor was their bravery the result of a common callousness. They understood at once the humour and the delicacy of the situation.
By accident, Wild had met with a young fellow who had formerly been his companion at school. Mr. He was possessed of several great weaknesses of mind, being good-natured, friendly, and generous to a great excess. This young man, who was about Wild's age, had some time before set up in the trade of a jeweller, in the materials for which he had laid out the greatest part of a little fortune.
We did a good march of one and a half miles that night before we halted for "lunch" at 1 a.m., and then on for another mile, when at 5 a.m. we camped by a little sloping berg. Blackie, one of Wild's dogs, fell lame and could neither pull nor keep up with the party even when relieved of his harness, so had to be shot. Nine p.m. that night, the 27th, saw us on the march again.
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