The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-07-14

I tive alone shaI induce me to so on with
 you. Thames Darrell has returned. You l can restore him tu his rights, Do so and | l am still yours"
 1 q will make no terms with you" re- | turned Wild. "l swore to hang you two l years ago, but as you have been useful l to me l have deferred nay purpose. You
 came in here under my protection. 1ou | can depart in safety. l give you two hours. Then my settlers will be placed | on your heels.'
 i Jonathan was as good as his word. A | few hours later Jack was arrested and | lodged in Clerkenwell prison. But so far no prison fin the land had been able to l hold the notorious bandit, and Clerken- | well was no exception.
 Afew nights after, Jack was hiding '1 l the fields which then stretched from | ClerkenweIl in the direction of Islington. From the shelter of a hedge he saw d | horseman ride by, followed at some dls- | tance by mounted servant. Just in | front of Jack the servants horse slipped l and fell and before Its owner could re- cover himself Jack had stretched him | senseless with a blow from the butt of his own pistol and was stripping him of his | clothes. Then he saw that the fallen man was Quilt Arnold, one of Wild's ''setters." Hastily attring himself in Quilts cloth- ing, Jack mounted the horse, which had scrambled to It's feet, and rode on after the traveller who had halted to what was the matter. Jack recognized Sir Rowland Trenchard. Sir Rowland, seeing his attendant, as he supposed, following g again. rode on and with Jack In his wake came to the house and the audience room of Jonathan Wild. As they entered, Blue
 skin came out of the audience room, where he had been interceding with Wild | for Jack.
 Don't start" Jack whispered to him, "but remain within call. It Is I, the cap tain"
 You were no doubt surprised by the news I sent you of your nephew's re- turn" said Wild to Sir Rowland. What do you propose regarding him?' asked the knight boldly.
 'I would treat him as you treated his father" replied Jonathan.
 Tt Is vain to struggle against fate | said Trenchard. Flight is left me. I l will escape to France
 And you think I will allow 1t? No! | No!" cried Wild. "Bah It is a miserable weakness to be afraid of bloodshed The general who gives order for a whole ! sale carnage never sleeps wink less l soundly for 1t. We should deride him as { a coward if he did. Besides those have | killed with my own hands, have brought I some thirty persons to the gallows: yet | cannot remember that any of them | have disturbed my rest For one-third of | your estate I will have Darrelfs throat cut. Here, sign this paper"
 l And the thef-taker pushed document | toward Sir Rowland, who hesitated mo-
 ment and then signed
 l And now" said the knight, "who was this young mans father? Why is he called | Darrell?'
 Darrell" replied Wild. was the name | his father gave to Wood when that | worthy carpenter directed him to hiding
 7, place the day he fled with the child-a hid 1 ing place which did not serve him, you will remember, against your vengeance. l for you found him later on the Thames. | It was not his right name. Later l will l tell you that But now, in return for your generosity, I will tell you another se- l cret. I need not remind you, Sir Row | land that you had two sisters, Aliva and i Constance"
 Both are dead" observed the knight | gloomily.
 Not so" returned Wild Constance is still living"
 Constance alive, lmpossble.' ex- l claimed Sir Rowland.
 Mrs. Sheppard Is Constance Trench ard" returned Wild with a malicious l smile.
 What" cried the knight. My sister | the wife of one felon and the mother O. | another? It is false, Your proofl' Here it is," said Wild. calmly pushing I a paper toward the knight. Tt is the at ] tested confession, as you will see, of tha gypsy woman who stole Constance as a | child and who was hanged some time since for a similar crime. Mrs. Sheppard l Is. and always has been entirely ignor- l ant of her birth. She was brought up and | has lived among vice and poverty. You are aware that by the terms of your | fathers will, on the death without issue l of your sister Aliva. the estate was to go to Constance. should she ever be found.