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1It was in the fourth year of my apprenticeship to Joe, and it was a Saturday night. There was a group assembled round
2the fire at the Three Jolly Bargemen, attentive to Mr. Wopsle as he read the newspaper aloud. Of that group I was one. A
3highly popular murder had been committed, and Mr. Wopsle was imbrued in blood to the eyebrows. He gloated over every
4abhorrent adjective in the description, and identified himself with every witness at the Inquest. He faintly moaned, "I
5am done for," as the victim, and he barbarously bellowed, "I'll serve you out," as the murderer. He gave the medical
6testimony, in pointed imitation of our local practitioner; and he piped and shook, as the aged turnpike-keeper who had
7heard blows, to an extent so very paralytic as to suggest a doubt regarding the mental competency of that witness. The
8coroner, in Mr. Wopsle's hands, became Timon of Athens; the beadle, Coriolanus. He enjoyed himself thoroughly, and we
9all enjoyed ourselves, and were delightfully comfortable. In this cosey state of mind we came to the verdict Wilful
10Murder. Then, and not sooner, I became aware of a strange gentleman leaning over the back of the settle opposite me,
11looking on. There was an expression of contempt on his face, and he bit the side of a great forefinger as he watched the
12group of faces. "Well!" said the stranger to Mr. Wopsle, when the reading was done, "you have settled it all to your own
13satisfaction, I have no doubt?" Everybody started and looked up, as if it were the murderer. He looked at everybody
14coldly and sarcastically. "Guilty, of course?" said he. "Out with it. Come!" "Sir," returned Mr. Wopsle, "without having
15the honour of your acquaintance, I do say Guilty." Upon this we all took courage to unite in a confirmatory murmur. "I
16know you do," said the stranger; "I knew you would. I told you so. But now I'll ask you a question. Do you know, or do
17you not know, that the law of England supposes every man to be innocent, until he is proved--proved--to be guilty?"
18"Sir," Mr. Wopsle began to reply, "as an Englishman myself, I--" "Come!" said the stranger, biting his forefinger at
19him. "Don't evade the question. Either you know it, or you don't know it. Which is it to be?" He stood with his head on
20one side and himself on one side, in a bullying, interrogative manner, and he threw his forefinger at Mr. Wopsle,--as it
21were to mark him out--before biting it again. "Now!" said he. "Do you know it, or don't you know it?" "Certainly I know
22it," replied Mr. Wopsle. "Certainly you know it. Then why didn't you say so at first? Now, I'll ask you another
23question,"--taking possession of Mr. Wopsle, as if he had a right to him,--"do you know that none of these witnesses
24have yet been cross-examined?" Mr. Wopsle was beginning, "I can only say--" when the stranger stopped him. "What? You
25won't answer the question, yes or no? Now, I'll try you again." Throwing his finger at him again. "Attend to me. Are you
26aware, or are you not aware, that none of these witnesses have yet been cross-examined? Come, I only want one word from
27you. Yes, or no?" Mr. Wopsle hesitated, and we all began to conceive rather a poor opinion of him. "Come!" said the
28stranger, "I'll help you. You don't deserve help, but I'll help you. Look at that paper you hold in your hand. What is
29it?" "What is it?" repeated Mr. Wopsle, eyeing it, much at a loss. "Is it," pursued the stranger in his most sarcastic
30and suspicious manner, "the printed paper you have just been reading from?" "Undoubtedly." "Undoubtedly. Now, turn to
31that paper, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the prisoner expressly said that his legal advisers instructed
32him altogether to reserve his defence?" "I read that just now," Mr. Wopsle pleaded. "Never mind what you read just now,
33sir; I don't ask you what you read just now. You may read the Lord's Prayer backwards, if you like,--and, perhaps, have
34done it before to-day. Turn to the paper. No, no, no my friend; not to the top of the column; you know better than that;
35to the bottom, to the bottom." (We all began to think Mr. Wopsle full of subterfuge.) "Well? Have you found it?" "Here
36it is," said Mr. Wopsle. "Now, follow that passage with your eye, and tell me whether it distinctly states that the
37prisoner expressly said that he was instructed by his legal advisers wholly to reserve his defence? Come! Do you make
38that of it?" Mr. Wopsle answered, "Those are not the exact words." "Not the exact words!" repeated the gentleman
39bitterly. "Is that the exact substance?" "Yes," said Mr. Wopsle. "Yes," repeated the stranger, looking round at the rest
40of the company with his right hand extended towards the witness, Wopsle. "And now I ask you what you say to the
41conscience of that man who, with that passage before his eyes, can lay his head upon his pillow after having pronounced
42a fellow-creature guilty, unheard?" We all began to suspect that Mr. Wopsle was not the man we had thought him, and that
43he was beginning to be found out. "And that same man, remember," pursued the gentleman, throwing his finger at Mr.
44Wopsle heavily,--"that same man might be summoned as a juryman upon this very trial, and, having thus deeply committed
45himself, might return to the bosom of his family and lay his head upon his pillow, after deliberately swearing that he
46would well and truly try the issue joined between Our Sovereign Lord the King and the prisoner at the bar, and would a
47true verdict give according to the evidence, so help him God!" We were all deeply persuaded that the unfortunate Wopsle
48had gone too far, and had better stop in his reckless career while there was yet time. The strange gentleman, with an
49air of authority not to be disputed, and with a manner expressive of knowing something secret about every one of us that
50would effectually do for each individual if he chose to disclose it, left the back of the settle, and came into the
51space between the two settles, in front of the fire, where he remained standing, his left hand in his pocket, and he
52biting the forefinger of his right. "From information I have received," said he, looking round at us as we all quailed
53before him, "I have reason to believe there is a blacksmith among you, by name Joseph--or Joe--Gargery. Which is the
54man?" "Here is the man," said Joe. The strange gentleman beckoned him out of his place, and Joe went. "You have an
55apprentice," pursued the stranger, "commonly known as Pip? Is he here?" "I am here!" I cried. The stranger did not
56recognise me, but I recognised him as the gentleman I had met on the stairs, on the occasion of my second visit to Miss
57Havisham. I had known him the moment I saw him looking over the settle, and now that I stood confronting him with his
58hand upon my shoulder, I checked off again in detail his large head, his dark complexion, his deep-set eyes, his bushy
59black eyebrows, his large watch-chain, his strong black dots of beard and whisker, and even the smell of scented soap on
60his great hand. "I wish to have a private conference with you two," said he, when he had surveyed me at his leisure. "It
61will take a little time. Perhaps we had better go to your place of residence. I prefer not to anticipate my
62communication here; you will impart as much or as little of it as you please to your friends afterwards; I have nothing
63to do with that." Amidst a wondering silence, we three walked out of the Jolly Bargemen, and in a wondering silence
64walked home. While going along, the strange gentleman occasionally looked at me, and occasionally bit the side of his
65finger. As we neared home, Joe vaguely acknowledging the occasion as an impressive and ceremonious one, went on ahead to
66open the front door. Our conference was held in the state parlour, which was feebly lighted by one candle. It began with
67the strange gentleman's sitting down at the table, drawing the candle to him, and looking over some entries in his
68pocket-book. He then put up the pocket-book and set the candle a little aside, after peering round it into the darkness
69at Joe and me, to ascertain which was which.
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