Warding off the blows as well as he could with the bar, Jack struck both the horses on the head, and the animals plunged so violently, that they not only prevented their riders from assailing him, but also kept off the hostlers; and, in the confusion that ensued, Jack managed to spring over the fence, and shaped his course across the field in the direction of Sir John Oldcastle's. “No, stay, Lucy. She was a woman now to the tips of her fingers; she had said good-bye to her girlhood in the old garden four years and a quarter ago. " Thames was about to follow, when he felt a gentle grasp upon his arm. So he dashed himself from the highest turret of the castle he had made to the rocks below!” “Lucy, open the door, it’s me, Martin. Jack's recapture was speedily made known to all the officers of the jail, and the Lodge was instantly crowded. Peste, where was her handkerchief? She remembered then that it had been lost in the struggle with Gerald. “Yes. ” “Oh. There was more to be told, and this was as good a time as any. That’s my opinion, if you ask me. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them. The great ordeal—that which she had most dreaded—had proved to be no ordeal at all. Over the chimney-piece was pasted a handbill, purporting to be "The last Dying Speech and Confession of TOM SHEPPARD, the Notorious Housebreaker, who suffered at Tyburn on the 25th of February, 1703.
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