The next morning she went out with her post-office savings bank-book, and telegraphed for a warrant to draw out all the money she had in the world. When things are at the worst, they'll mend. ‘At last,’ he cried, ‘I have found you!’ He would listen to nothing. At this point Lucy, in an effort perhaps—foolhardy, in Gerald’s opinion—to pour oil on troubled waters, rose swiftly to her feet and came towards the old man, her hand held out. "Ay, what's the matter, boy!" reiterated Jackson sternly. “I promise, Lucy. He it was who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows. He made it more and more evident to her that her proper course was not to earn a salary but to accumulate equipment. I was reduced to 170 a fool, for there were many pretty women from all walks of life in that teeming city. By some it was affirmed that a subterranean communication existed between the thief-taker's abode and Newgate, by means of which he was enabled to maintain a secret correspondence with the imprisoned felons: by others, that an under-ground passage led to extensive vaults, where such malefactors as he chose to screen from justice might lie concealed till the danger was blown over.
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