Wild will hang me. Without inquiring into the correctness of the latter part of the story, it may be sufficient to state, that Black Mary was a person in whom Jack Sheppard thought he could confide, and, as Edgeworth Bess was incapable of much further exertion, he determined to leave her in the old woman's care till the following night, while he shifted for himself and fulfilled his design—for, however rash or hazardous a project might be, if once conceived, Jack always executed it,—of visiting Jonathan Wild at his house in the Old Bailey. Now how in the world was he to get rid of the husband? His luck was in. The sun-canvas was stowed; and Spurlock's chair was set forward the foremast, where the bulging jib cast a sliding blue shadow over him. It was a capital diversion; and as usual the Leatherneck bested the Britisher, in seven rounds. It was now a quarter past twelve. . Sir Rowland witnessed these proceedings like one stupified.
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