I said, “We received no letter. There is no delivery here on a Sunday morning.”
Jack said, “Come in,” and she came in. Having looked round our apartment, she said, “You have a nice place here.”
Jack asked her if she would have some supper.
She replied in the affirmative, and this I had to get ready. She then began to talk about his friends and of the people whom they both knew, and I learned in the course of conversation that the shop at Hull had been given up, and that she had realised the proceeds.
Peace asked my permission to have Mrs. Ward and the boy Willie in London.
I could not do otherwise than consent, and eventually they came.
Shortly after their arrival we moved to a house at Greenwich, but as we did not live comfortable in the same house, we moved into separate habitations adjoining each other, Mrs. Ward and her son living in one, and I and Peace in the other.
Whilst we were living in this manner Peace made a journey into the provinces—a thing which he now very seldom did. Whilst upon this excursion he committed a great burglary at Southampton.
The police say that the affair took place at Portsea, but I know better; it was at Southampton. By this robbery Peace cleared something like £200—£60 of the money being in gold and silver, and the remainder in Bank of England notes.
These he found no difficulty in getting rid of. There is a place, I am told, where all Bank of England notes can be disposed of without inquiries being made, but I do not feel justified in stating where it is. That is reserved for the Bank of England authorities.