His salary was a few paltry hundreds a year. Hence!" "Mother! dear mother!" cried Jack, in a voice, the tones of which were altered by his very anxiety to make them distinct, "listen to me. He then looked around him with some curiosity; and, as the thief-taker was occupied in giving directions to his attendant in an undertone, ample leisure was allowed him for investigation. I’m not discussing Shakespeare. She understood. We are linked together in this matter, and must go through with it. And, with a glance of malignant exultation, he quitted the vault, and locked the door.