"We'll give them the slip yet, and hang that butcherly thief-taker upon his own gibbet. "To shoot you would be to lose the reward. " "Irons—heavy irons—night and day. In this letter, which is addressed to my ill-fated mother, he speaks of his friendship for Sir Rowland, whom it seems he had known abroad; but entreats her to keep the marriage secret for a time, for reasons which are not fully developed. “You come into these sordid surroundings—you mustn’t mind my calling them sordid—and it makes them seem as though they didn’t matter. I learned the trick of the place from one Paul Groves, who used to live here, and who contrived the machine. And now she comprehended that the man (she had never known him by any name) knew she had surprised the look and had not resented it. At least I rather hoped I might spend my time chasing smugglers, which would have afforded some excitement. Only your horror of a grandfather insisted on coming with me, so I had to wait for him to be ready and travel at his pace. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size, and appeared almost to block up the window. They were all stout ill-favoured men, attired in the regular jail-livery of scratch wig and snuff-coloured suit; and had all a strong family likeness to each other.
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