He took down the body gently and laid it on a bulk, and brought out the rope to the company.

"This, gentlemen, is the rope that hanged Jack; what must be done with it ?" Upon which they ordered it to be laid among the curiosities of Gresham College; and it is called Jack's rope to this very day.

However, Jack, after all, had some small tokens of life in him, but lies, at this time, past hopes of a total recovery, with his head hanging on one shoulder, without speech or motion.

The coroner's inquest, supposing him to be dead, brought him in non compos..