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Glancing around his prison, he began to think it possible he might effect an escape from it. 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. From none of these could Jack ascertain what had become of Thames, or learn any particulars concerning the family at Dollis Hill, or of his mother. ” “It’s impossible. Everybody, he felt, must be listening behind their papers. ” “But is that really so?” said Ann Veronica.
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