The sense of publicity, of people coming and going about them, kept them
both unemotional. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. I had
special ways of getting out of the basement without them
noticing, and often I could smuggle a child or two out for
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the day and they were never the wiser. He was followed, more leisurely, by the prisoners; and,
during their ascent, Jack Sheppard made a second attempt to escape by ducking
suddenly down, and endeavouring to pass under his conductor's legs.
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