26/31 "Jack Sheppard's fingers are lime-twigs. Was anything missed after the lad's departure, Sir Rowland ?" "Not that I'm aware of," said the knight.--"Stay! something occurs to me." And he conferred apart with Jonathan. "This young fool is come to restore the article--whatever it may be--which Lady Trafford was anxious to conceal, and which his companion purloined. It's precisely what such a simpleton would do. We have him as safe as a linnet in a cage; and could wring his neck round as easily. |