At length Jack Sheppard observed:—"The coast's clear. I’m glad you could come. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. I have something that weighs heavily upon my mind. At any cost! Her brothers had it practically—at least they had it far more than it seemed likely she would unless she exerted herself with quite exceptional vigor. Strange, demure-looking young woman, with wonderful complexion and eyes, and a style about her, too. How do you like the story?” “Go on,” said Ann Veronica, a little hoarsely, “tell me all of it. Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world, with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes, its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much as an animal goes out to seek food. I found him lying like this, the bleeding partly stopped by this scarf, else he had been dead by now. She dropped a flower—it’s in my pocket-book now. “I don’t think you realize,” Ann Veronica began again, “that I am rather a defective human being. Taking the light, they then proceeded along the passage.
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