Ruby and Kyran struggled to pull on their gloves and jackets, having followed Tessie into a cab without time to properly dress. Without a thought Tessie had rushed out the door, urging the cab onward to Newgate Prison. To think, just that morning as she had woken in Clerkenwell, he had been not a 15 minutes walk away, in a cell!
"He needs someone to help him. Who can get him out?" Tessie quizzed them, leaning forward in the cab as if to make it go faster.
"If there's to be a trial he'll need representation. A defence lawyer."
"Do yer know one?"
"None that will represent him against Arthur,” Ruby asserted. “That's for sure. Not in this town." Ruby’s eyes slid past her, serious and concerned as the streets outside whizzed by.
"There must be.”
"Tessie, not even Ruby or I can be publicly
