"These writer chaps are queer birds. "It was given me by a man who was drinking t'other night with Blueskin at the Lion! and who, though he slouched his hat over his eyes, and muffled his chin in a handkerchief, must have been Jonathan Wild. He continued to do this for the rest of the evening intermittently, in and out, among other topics. ’ ‘Then you’re mad,’ Roding said flatly, and suddenly grinned. As I understand it, Remenham House devolves upon Melusine, in default of her mother, the actual heir. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. ” Ennison took an easy chair. " CHAPTER XIV. But he did not follow on with the thought. Bribed by a certain Sir Rowland Trenchard, Jonathan kidnapped the carpenter's adopted son, Thames Darrell, and placed him in the hands of a Dutch Skipper, with orders to throw him overboard when he got out to sea; and though this was proved as clear as day, the rascal managed matters so adroitly, and gave such a different complexion to the whole affair, that he came off with flying colours. ’ Captain Roding looked frowningly from one to the other. But Jack eluded their grasp.
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