The manager, however, who stood in the wings, nodded to her to proceed, and the orchestra commenced the first few bars of the music. " The envelope contained exactly five hundred dollars. They were hurried before a magistrate, and charged by Jonathan Wild with various robberies; but, as Jack Sheppard stated that he had most important disclosures to make, as well as charges to bring forward against his accuser, he was committed with his female companion to the New Prison in Clerkenwell for further examination. " "As you please," returned Jack, leaping up; "but I feel devilishly inclined to finish him.