As soon as he was certain he should be disturbed no more, Jack set to work, and with the aid of the file in less than an hour had freed himself from his fetters. He stared at the woman depicted thereon for a long moment, awe in his head. He kissed her deeply and hungrily. “I suppose you’ll come to the point soon—if there is one. The houses were older, the shops gloomier, and the thoroughfare narrower, it is true; but the bustle, the crowd, the street-like air was the same.