I am off to the Containing with this L10,000, and I can get to Newhaven in time for the midday boat, so you'll have to keep quiet until I am the other side of the Channel, my friend.

You won't be much inconvenienced; my landlady will hear your groans presently and release you, so you'll be all right.

There, now, drink this--that's better.' He forced something bitter down my throat, then I remember nothing more.
"'"When I regained consciousness I was sitting in an arm-chair with some rope tied round me and a wool shawl round my mouth.

I hadn't the strength to make the slightest effort to disentangle myself or to utter a scream.

I felt terribly sick and faint."' "Mr.Reginald Pepys had finished reading, and no one in that crowded court had thought of uttering a sound; the magistrate's eyes were fixed upon the handsome lady in the magnificent gown, who was mopping her eyes with a dainty lace handkerchief.
"The extraordinary narrative of the victim of so daring an outrage had kept every one in suspense; one thing was still expected to make the measure of sensation as full as it had ever been over any criminal case, and that was Mrs.Morton's evidence.