CHAPTER XI.
The Mohocks.
Jonathan Wild, meanwhile, had quitted the house.

He found a coach at the door, with the blinds carefully drawn up, and ascertained from a tall, ill-looking, though tawdrily-dressed fellow, who held his horse by the bridle, and whom he addressed as Quilt Arnold, that the two boys were safe inside, in the custody of Abraham Mendez, the dwarfish Jew.

As soon as he had delivered his instructions to Quilt, who, with Abraham, constituted his body-guard, or janizaries, as he termed them, Jonathan mounted his steed, and rode off at a gallop.

Quilt was not long in following his example.

Springing upon the box, he told the coachman to make the best of his way to Saint Giles's.