Spring-Heel'd Jack, The Terror of London — page 184: what you’re looking at

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8 SS nee | | 186i SPRING-HEEL’D JACK: |HE TERROR OF LONDON, | “ No, I will not. I hear the tramp of horses’| “ Yes, Richard Clavering,” said Jack, after a } feet on the road. You and 1 will soon part, | short pause, “wou are foiled again. Justice will - t Richard Clavering—never more to meet, I hope,, | have her due, and murder will out. Could Ty ) in this world ; but ere we do, let me implore you | have been brought to pity you, that time has — to pray for forgiveness for your great crime, passed now and for ever. The gallows awaits and may Heaven have mercy on your soul.” its prey, and hither come. those who will bear — | “And hell consume yours!” ried Richard, | you to it. Fool! you struggle in vain. Thisis | worked up to desperation by hearing the quick | the last hour of your freedom.” 97 wi 4 i 3 gallop of horses gradually drawing nearer and |; He pressed his’ knees, more forcibly upon th at nearer to them. “Spring-heeled Jack, they hand which grasped the handle of the knife, and | cannot hang me at once—-days must pass ere| twined his fingers more tightly around the neck — they can Go that—ere the gaping crowd assembles of theamurderbr. .) o10ls mins Bey of work | before the gallows, and the bell. tolls’ for my } He has ‘node e to:add:to the pangs heimnew | death. But I will cheat them yet. I wall force he must. already suffer, but, he» knews and» felt: , my prison walls. Blood is upon my hands—my | that to relaxin thé least, was to: lay himself — soul. 1 can die but once, and will yet be open toa desperate and implacable foe.» ».,\« Silt é avenged. Look to yourself !—look to yourself!” | Stillithe tramp of the horses sounded nearer, ii Jack made no answer to this wild raving, save but the impatience,ef Wack became greaterevery | by a look of pity, which he cast down upon the moment. Biss if miss ome xls, edt oe man at his feet, who had raised himself toa} He had no wish tobe seen by the coming — sitting position... | horsemen in the hideous mask he had worn; and if The tramp of the horses came nearer and’| yet he dreaded to relax Ais ‘hold of ‘Richard to Py nearer. iar Saeovo{enable him 'to remove iffesy) is S& S8OGts.oes Richard heard them, and’ made violent efforts| Gradually the pressure of his fingers Le to free his hands—efforts which our hero did not the murderer, his struggles: became sless-violent, , perceive,.as his attention ‘was occupied ‘by the| and then Jack hurriedly tore the mask fr on his new-comers. aT | face, and thrust it into ‘his Bama.|cisc Wisgs GR The first intimation he received was by seeing It was none;too soon. = Ne: HU Bias is ftl Shit } Clayering leap to his feet; andere our hero coul The next instant three, horsemen -weresclose — recover from his surprise, his throat was upon them, and would hhaye: trampled'them be- — cluéched,amd. he. was borne backwards to the | neath the feet of their steeds; had:notyJack — earth... called out loudly for theme stop. bus jiso ee . i - slaught, that he was powerless to make the| rein, questioning as - they aid least resistance, and the knee of the desperate they could scarcely, ee MISH 1H Ene | murderer was planted firmly on his chest. “Who are you?” asked daeki si of) se | my triumph now, Jack—my triumph. *Tis you prompt reply. PANES. « -bisdoi | who must sue for mercy, not me; but you will | “ Richard Clavering? Svad seiisd bad voy © sue in vain. Blood is on my hands—fresh red | ‘The sameti!) } hoot tor ayeeieon svai ft blood, -I cannot fall deeper by taking another | ‘‘He is ‘here;, dismount; and jid me: His — for even now he has soughtamy fe); 09 life, E can hang but once. Youshall die !—you soul is not yet sufficiently satiate shall die!” feet tyne! bapsrs | : | With one hand stall on our hero's throat, and No |second bidding did they: require, but dis- ; his knee pressed firmly, on.to his' chest, Richard | mounted instantly, and assuring themselvesithat — Clayering sought his breast-pocket with. the) the prostrate man was the one whom they sought, ' other, and drew from it aknife. they quickly slipped the handcuffs on, his wrists, — { It was a clasp Spanish knife, and he placed | and mounting him on one of the-horses, hore him — the back of the blade to his lips, and opened the| towards London... ot Sipe gots! but, ; weapon with histeeth: . Hong On the road they turned to, question Jack, but, — Spite of the darkness, Jack saw. the gleaming) to their surprise, found, he was gone.s)|) coi) blade and summoning up all his, strength he | ss ___ olést oft bodusoiqig - hurled the murderer from, him, just in time to pon Pty eninge A 4 v save the weapon from entering his throat. i) , MOT Coe UaR, Geaetne | . The knife was buried, deep, in the earth, so |THE ATTEMPTED, ESCAPE AND, DEATH OF RICHARD — fearful had been the violence of the blow which} » 2 i, bisSLAVERING somed> Sit” ay Richard Clavering had aimed ; and. as he'strove| Tur cold: grey dawn of morning broke over — to tear it out Jack clutched, him in, turn, and)|the earth asthe three horsemen, bearing Richard pinned him to the ground. Glayering in’ their midst, dreworein>before the — “ Foiled again! ’’ hissed Richard ;, ‘‘ foiled | sombre walls of Newgate. ORISA) ert AILRS S again are tit | : ‘| Nota:sitigle word Had Richatd ‘uttered during Yes,” said Jack; “you are foiled again, and| the whole of that long ride, but motion 33 a8 a here I keep you till assistance arrives.”’ statue ‘had he sat before the centre officer—h “Curse you!” roared the guilty man, |“A | head bowed upon his heaving-chest, and his mana bitter, lasting curse upon you--you ”’ _ J oled hands: resting despairingly upon the pomme » The fingers of Jack twined so tightly round) of,the'saddle. * > Uo 7 ee his throat, that he could not articulate, and his} He had been baulked of his revenge, and the knee was pressed on the back of the hand which | disappointment rankled in his soul. > | strove to tear the knife from the sod in which it} Bitter, though silent, were the maledictions he had buried itself. heaped upon Jack as he was borne along; ail ' - 7 ~y j ys ¥ ‘" ‘ —-_ - | : Gomicbooks: cor