The night his execution was therefore passed in a most anxious state of mind;
nor was his uneasiness allayed by the appearance of Jonathan Wild, who, after
he had been driven from the roof of the jail, repaired to the Middle Stone Ward
in a fit of ungovernable passion, to vent his rage upon the prisoner, whom he
looked upon as the cause of the present calamity. He fancied, indeed, that he
beheld a figure spring upon the starling at the moment when the boats came in
contact; but, as he could perceive no one near him, he concluded he must have
been mistaken. "Five guineas. "Good Lord!—cannibals?"
"Aye. "This," replied Jonathan, taking a paper from a portfolio, and handing it to the
knight, "this written evidence, signed by Martha Cooper, the gipsy, by whom the
girl was stolen, and who was afterwards executed for a similar crime. He had been thrilled
at her attitude about the subject, which was simply not to
turn others into vampires. He was standing
by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was
packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small
casket from him.
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