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1In his two cabin rooms at the top of the house, which were fresh and airy, and in which Mr. Barley was less audible than
2below, I found Provis comfortably settled. He expressed no alarm, and seemed to feel none that was worth mentioning; but
3it struck me that he was softened,--indefinably, for I could not have said how, and could never afterwards recall how
4when I tried, but certainly. The opportunity that the day's rest had given me for reflection had resulted in my fully
5determining to say nothing to him respecting Compeyson. For anything I knew, his animosity towards the man might
6otherwise lead to his seeking him out and rushing on his own destruction. Therefore, when Herbert and I sat down with
7him by his fire, I asked him first of all whether he relied on Wemmick's judgment and sources of information? "Ay, ay,
8dear boy!" he answered, with a grave nod, "Jaggers knows." "Then, I have talked with Wemmick," said I, "and have come to
9tell you what caution he gave me and what advice." This I did accurately, with the reservation just mentioned; and I
10told him how Wemmick had heard, in Newgate prison (whether from officers or prisoners I could not say), that he was
11under some suspicion, and that my chambers had been watched; how Wemmick had recommended his keeping close for a time,
12and my keeping away from him; and what Wemmick had said about getting him abroad. I added, that of course, when the time
13came, I should go with him, or should follow close upon him, as might be safest in Wemmick's judgment. What was to
14follow that I did not touch upon; neither, indeed, was I at all clear or comfortable about it in my own mind, now that I
15saw him in that softer condition, and in declared peril for my sake. As to altering my way of living by enlarging my
16expenses, I put it to him whether in our present unsettled and difficult circumstances, it would not be simply
17ridiculous, if it were no worse? He could not deny this, and indeed was very reasonable throughout. His coming back was
18a venture, he said, and he had always known it to be a venture. He would do nothing to make it a desperate venture, and
19he had very little fear of his safety with such good help. Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here
20said that something had come into his thoughts arising out of Wemmick's suggestion, which it might be worth while to
21pursue. "We are both good watermen, Handel, and could take him down the river ourselves when the right time comes. No
22boat would then be hired for the purpose, and no boatmen; that would save at least a chance of suspicion, and any chance
23is worth saving. Never mind the season; don't you think it might be a good thing if you began at once to keep a boat at
24the Temple stairs, and were in the habit of rowing up and down the river? You fall into that habit, and then who notices
25or minds? Do it twenty or fifty times, and there is nothing special in your doing it the twenty-first or fifty-first." I
26liked this scheme, and Provis was quite elated by it. We agreed that it should be carried into execution, and that
27Provis should never recognise us if we came below Bridge, and rowed past Mill Pond Bank. But we further agreed that he
28should pull down the blind in that part of his window which gave upon the east, whenever he saw us and all was right.
29Our conference being now ended, and everything arranged, I rose to go; remarking to Herbert that he and I had better not
30go home together, and that I would take half an hour's start of him. "I don't like to leave you here," I said to Provis,
31"though I cannot doubt your being safer here than near me. Good-bye!" "Dear boy," he answered, clasping my hands, "I
32don't know when we may meet again, and I don't like good-bye. Say good-night!" "Good-night! Herbert will go regularly
33between us, and when the time comes you may be certain I shall be ready. Good-night, good-night!" We thought it best
34that he should stay in his own rooms; and we left him on the landing outside his door, holding a light over the
35stair-rail to light us downstairs. Looking back at him, I thought of the first night of his return, when our positions
36were reversed, and when I little supposed my heart could ever be as heavy and anxious at parting from him as it was now.
37Old Barley was growling and swearing when we repassed his door, with no appearance of having ceased or of meaning to
38cease. When we got to the foot of the stairs, I asked Herbert whether he had preserved the name of Provis. He replied,
39certainly not, and that the lodger was Mr. Campbell. He also explained that the utmost known of Mr. Campbell there was,
40that he (Herbert) had Mr. Campbell consigned to him, and felt a strong personal interest in his being well cared for,
41and living a secluded life. So, when we went into the parlour where Mrs. Whimple and Clara were seated at work, I said
42nothing of my own interest in Mr. Campbell, but kept it to myself. When I had taken leave of the pretty, gentle,
43dark-eyed girl, and of the motherly woman who had not outlived her honest sympathy with a little affair of true love, I
44felt as if the Old Green Copper Rope-walk had grown quite a different place. Old Barley might be as old as the hills,
45and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's
46Basin to fill it to overflowing. And then I thought of Estella, and of our parting, and went home very sadly. All things
47were as quiet in the Temple as ever I had seen them. The windows of the rooms on that side, lately occupied by Provis,
48were dark and still, and there was no lounger in Garden Court. I walked past the fountain twice or thrice before I
49descended the steps that were between me and my rooms, but I was quite alone. Herbert, coming to my bedside when he came
50in,--for I went straight to bed, dispirited and fatigued,--made the same report. Opening one of the windows after that,
51he looked out into the moonlight, and told me that the pavement was as solemnly empty as the pavement of any cathedral
52at that same hour. Next day I set myself to get the boat. It was soon done, and the boat was brought round to the Temple
53stairs, and lay where I could reach her within a minute or two. Then, I began to go out as for training and practice:
54sometimes alone, sometimes with Herbert. I was often out in cold, rain, and sleet, but nobody took much note of me after
55I had been out a few times. At first, I kept above Blackfriars Bridge; but as the hours of the tide changed, I took
56towards London Bridge. It was Old London Bridge in those days, and at certain states of the tide there was a race and
57fall of water there which gave it a bad reputation. But I knew well enough how to 'shoot' the bridge after seeing it
58done, and so began to row about among the shipping in the Pool, and down to Erith. The first time I passed Mill Pond
59Bank, Herbert and I were pulling a pair of oars; and, both in going and returning, we saw the blind towards the east
60come down. Herbert was rarely there less frequently than three times in a week, and he never brought me a single word of
61intelligence that was at all alarming. Still, I knew that there was cause for alarm, and I could not get rid of the
62notion of being watched. Once received, it is a haunting idea; how many undesigning persons I suspected of watching me,
63it would be hard to calculate. In short, I was always full of fears for the rash man who was in hiding. Herbert had
64sometimes said to me that he found it pleasant to stand at one of our windows after dark, when the tide was running
65down, and to think that it was flowing, with everything it bore, towards Clara. But I thought with dread that it was
66flowing towards Magwitch, and that any black mark on its surface might be his pursuers, going swiftly, silently, and
67surely, to take him.
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