“True to his word, the poor wretch did suffer, for she was hung at Tyburn in less than the time he had promised.
“Thus acted Captain Jack and Bates towards all the notorious characters with whom they were connected.
“The poor devils in the first place served Jack and Bates by enriching them with systematic roguery, and, after they had ‘run their race,’ as Jack was wont to say, with a laugh, the gallows was sure to be their reward and the chief witness against them in all cases was Jack or Bates.
“For a long series of years these two villains and the Baker’s Dozen carried on this devilish system of rearing and fostering thieves, and afterwards hanging them; but now, to use Jack’s own words, he and the Dozen had likewise ‘run their race,’ for within a month after their arrest by Wildfire Ned, Lieutenant Garnet, and the gallant assistance of Bob Bertram, they were condemned to die, and were hung in gibbets on the identical cross roads of which Colonel Blood had spoken in an early chapter of this tale.
“They stoutly protested their innocence, of course, and spoke loudly against the knavery of Colonel Blood; but, before they suffered, Captain Jack and old Bates were seized with remorse, and bewailed their past lives as bitterly as men possibly could do.”
CHAPTER LXIII.
NED WARBECK AND BOB BERTRAM HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH CAPTAIN JACK AND OLD BATES IN PRISON—ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS OF DEEDS OF CRIME.
Captain Jack and Bates wrote long accounts of their career in crime which greatly startled the pious old chaplain who attended them daily.
There was only one request which either Captain Jack or Bates desired, and this was to have a final and a parting interview with Ned Warbeck and Bob Bertram.