“He left Milward Square yesterday,” Esther said. “Then we went to another address, and then to another; we went to all the places Sarah had been to with him, but no tidings anywhere.”
Sarah burst into tears. “There’s no more hope,” she said. “I’m done for; they’ll come and take me away. How much do you think I’ll get? They won’t give me ten years, will they?”
“I can see nothing else for you to do,” said Esther, “but to go straight back to your people and tell them the whole story, and throw yourself on their mercy.”
“Do you mean that she should say that she pawned the plate to get money to back a horse?”
“Of course I do.”
“It will make the police more keen than ever on the betting houses.”
“That can’t be helped.”
“She’d better not be took here,” said William; “it will do a great dea
