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1As I spoke, rage sparkled in my eyes; the magistrate was intimidated. "You are mistaken," said he. "I will exert myself,
2and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes.
3But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his properties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus,
4while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment." "That cannot be; but all that I
5can say will be of little avail. My revenge is of no moment to you; yet, while I allow it to be a vice, I confess that
6it is the devouring and only passion of my soul. My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have
7turned loose upon society, still exists. You refuse my just demand; I have but one resource, and I devote myself, either
8in my life or death, to his destruction." I trembled with excess of agitation as I said this; there was a frenzy in my
9manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed. But
10to a Genevan magistrate, whose mind was occupied by far other ideas than those of devotion and heroism, this elevation
11of mind had much the appearance of madness. He endeavoured to soothe me as a nurse does a child and reverted to my tale
12as the effects of delirium. "Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom! Cease; you know not what it
13is you say." I broke from the house angry and disturbed and retired to meditate on some other mode of action. Chapter 24
14My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost. I was hurried away by fury;
15revenge alone endowed me with strength and composure; it moulded my feelings and allowed me to be calculating and calm
16at periods when otherwise delirium or death would have been my portion. My first resolution was to quit Geneva for ever;
17my country, which, when I was happy and beloved, was dear to me, now, in my adversity, became hateful. I provided myself
18with a sum of money, together with a few jewels which had belonged to my mother, and departed. And now my wanderings
19began which are to cease but with life. I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships
20which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet. How I have lived I hardly know; many times have I
21stretched my failing limbs upon the sandy plain and prayed for death. But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and
22leave my adversary in being. When I quitted Geneva my first labour was to gain some clue by which I might trace the
23steps of my fiendish enemy. But my plan was unsettled, and I wandered many hours round the confines of the town,
24uncertain what path I should pursue. As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William,
25Elizabeth, and my father reposed. I entered it and approached the tomb which marked their graves. Everything was silent
26except the leaves of the trees, which were gently agitated by the wind; the night was nearly dark, and the scene would
27have been solemn and affecting even to an uninterested observer. The spirits of the departed seemed to flit around and
28to cast a shadow, which was felt but not seen, around the head of the mourner. The deep grief which this scene had at
29first excited quickly gave way to rage and despair. They were dead, and I lived; their murderer also lived, and to
30destroy him I must drag out my weary existence. I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips
31exclaimed, "By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that
32I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the dæmon who caused this
33misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict. For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear
34revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes for
35ever. And I call on you, spirits of the dead, and on you, wandering ministers of vengeance, to aid and conduct me in my
36work. Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me." I had
37begun my adjuration with solemnity and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my murdered friends heard and
38approved my devotion, but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance. I was answered through
39the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rang on my ears long and heavily; the mountains re-echoed it,
40and I felt as if all hell surrounded me with mockery and laughter. Surely in that moment I should have been possessed by
41frenzy and have destroyed my miserable existence but that my vow was heard and that I was reserved for vengeance. The
42laughter died away, when a well-known and abhorred voice, apparently close to my ear, addressed me in an audible
43whisper, "I am satisfied, miserable wretch! You have determined to live, and I am satisfied." I darted towards the spot
44from which the sound proceeded, but the devil eluded my grasp. Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full
45upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed. I pursued him, and for many months this has
46been my task. Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly. The blue Mediterranean
47appeared, and by a strange chance, I saw the fiend enter by night and hide himself in a vessel bound for the Black Sea.
48I took my passage in the same ship, but he escaped, I know not how. Amidst the wilds of Tartary and Russia, although he
49still evaded me, I have ever followed in his track. Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed
50me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some
51mark to guide me. The snows descended on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain. To you first
52entering on life, to whom care is new and agony unknown, how can you understand what I have felt and still feel? Cold,
53want, and fatigue were the least pains which I was destined to endure; I was cursed by some devil and carried about with
54me my eternal hell; yet still a spirit of good followed and directed my steps and when I most murmured would suddenly
55extricate me from seemingly insurmountable difficulties. Sometimes, when nature, overcome by hunger, sank under the
56exhaustion, a repast was prepared for me in the desert that restored and inspirited me. The fare was, indeed, coarse,
57such as the peasants of the country ate, but I will not doubt that it was set there by the spirits that I had invoked to
58aid me. Often, when all was dry, the heavens cloudless, and I was parched by thirst, a slight cloud would bedim the sky,
59shed the few drops that revived me, and vanish. I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon
60generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected. In other places human
61beings were seldom seen, and I generally subsisted on the wild animals that crossed my path. I had money with me and
62gained the friendship of the villagers by distributing it; or I brought with me some food that I had killed, which,
63after taking a small part, I always presented to those who had provided me with fire and utensils for cooking.
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