Arrived at the latter place, Jonathan, who, meanwhile, had
contrived to liberate his attendants from their bonds, drew up at the Six Bells,
and hiring a couple of horses, despatched his attendants in search of Jack
Sheppard, while he proceeded to town. Michelle had played the informer when John
resumed his relationship with Katy at the beginning of
the school year by taking Katy to Homecoming. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. In privacy
he read and reread it a dozen times, and eventually destroyed it by fire. "Master
Thames Ditt—what's his blessed name?—has honesty written in his handsome
phiz; but as to his companion, Jack Sheppard, I think you call him, he's a born
and bred thief. Later on—well then the time may come. And they’ll shut the gates presently. He was full of fabulous stories, not just
tales of his own past in Rome but wonderful fables from
the mysterious Orient and the ancient Greeks, old jokes
and yarns that only he remembered. . Michelle
and Missy chatted vigorously in the front seat, oblivious
to both the world and other cars on the road. "
"To-morrow will be too late," said Sheppard, moodily. . ’
‘Now you come to mention it, it is stupid,’ Gerald said, struck. "
"Beast!"
For a little while they manoeuvred around the table.
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