The first of these, the Press Room, a dark close chamber, near Waterman's Hall, obtained its name from an immense wooden machine kept in it, with which such prisoners as refused to plead to their indictments were pressed to death—a species of inquisitorial torture not discontinued until so lately as the early part of the reign of George the Third, when it was abolished by an express statute. But whatever she may have said was lost as Gerald pinned her to the wall, the point of the sword at her throat. On the mantelpiece in front of her was a note addressed to her in Annabel’s handwriting. ‘Aha,’ grunted Gerald with satisfaction, squinting up at the two open shutters on the second floor. Then he could hear Hilary breathing beside him, and from outside the muted twittering of birds. Prom a knot of idlers at a public-house, he learnt that Jonathan Wild had just ridden past, and that his setters were scouring the country in every direction.
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