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Ruth's mind was fertile
soil; for a long time to come it would be something of a hothouse: green things
would spring up and blossom overnight. On that morning the death warrant had arrived from Windsor, ordering
Sheppard for execution, (since his capture by Jonathan Wild in Bedlam, as
related in a former chapter, Jack had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to
death,) together with three other malefactors on the following Friday. "
"Well, imagination beats me!"
"It's something Ruth saw. ”
She stopped abruptly, and turned about toward the front door. ‘Why do you stand there? Take him up, and bring him out
at once. "Ah!" ejaculated Mrs. ‘It is of
no use to try to stop me. "So that was it? And what the devil are you doing here, moping alone on the
beach? Why aren't you with her in this hour of bitterness?"
"What can I do?"
"You can go to her and take her in your arms. ”
“Well—”
“That’s all. But give me
till to-morrow—only till to-morrow—I may be able to part with him then. There's one person in the house
whom I wouldn't frighten for the world.
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