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1"Ah!" he cried, laughing, after doing it again, "the burnt child dreads the fire! Old Orlick knowed you was burnt, Old
2Orlick knowed you was smuggling your uncle Provis away, Old Orlick's a match for you and know'd you'd come to-night! Now
3I'll tell you something more, wolf, and this ends it. There's them that's as good a match for your uncle Provis as Old
4Orlick has been for you. Let him 'ware them, when he's lost his nevvy! Let him 'ware them, when no man can't find a rag
5of his dear relation's clothes, nor yet a bone of his body. There's them that can't and that won't have Magwitch,--yes,
6I know the name!--alive in the same land with them, and that's had such sure information of him when he was alive in
7another land, as that he couldn't and shouldn't leave it unbeknown and put them in danger. P'raps it's them that writes
8fifty hands, and that's not like sneaking you as writes but one. 'Ware Compeyson, Magwitch, and the gallows!" He flared
9the candle at me again, smoking my face and hair, and for an instant blinding me, and turned his powerful back as he
10replaced the light on the table. I had thought a prayer, and had been with Joe and Biddy and Herbert, before he turned
11towards me again. There was a clear space of a few feet between the table and the opposite wall. Within this space, he
12now slouched backwards and forwards. His great strength seemed to sit stronger upon him than ever before, as he did this
13with his hands hanging loose and heavy at his sides, and with his eyes scowling at me. I had no grain of hope left. Wild
14as my inward hurry was, and wonderful the force of the pictures that rushed by me instead of thoughts, I could yet
15clearly understand that, unless he had resolved that I was within a few moments of surely perishing out of all human
16knowledge, he would never have told me what he had told. Of a sudden, he stopped, took the cork out of his bottle, and
17tossed it away. Light as it was, I heard it fall like a plummet. He swallowed slowly, tilting up the bottle by little
18and little, and now he looked at me no more. The last few drops of liquor he poured into the palm of his hand, and
19licked up. Then, with a sudden hurry of violence and swearing horribly, he threw the bottle from him, and stooped; and I
20saw in his hand a stone-hammer with a long heavy handle. The resolution I had made did not desert me, for, without
21uttering one vain word of appeal to him, I shouted out with all my might, and struggled with all my might. It was only
22my head and my legs that I could move, but to that extent I struggled with all the force, until then unknown, that was
23within me. In the same instant I heard responsive shouts, saw figures and a gleam of light dash in at the door, heard
24voices and tumult, and saw Orlick emerge from a struggle of men, as if it were tumbling water, clear the table at a
25leap, and fly out into the night. After a blank, I found that I was lying unbound, on the floor, in the same place, with
26my head on some one's knee. My eyes were fixed on the ladder against the wall, when I came to myself,--had opened on it
27before my mind saw it,--and thus as I recovered consciousness, I knew that I was in the place where I had lost it. Too
28indifferent at first, even to look round and ascertain who supported me, I was lying looking at the ladder, when there
29came between me and it a face. The face of Trabb's boy! "I think he's all right!" said Trabb's boy, in a sober voice;
30"but ain't he just pale though!" At these words, the face of him who supported me looked over into mine, and I saw my
31supporter to be-- "Herbert! Great Heaven!" "Softly," said Herbert. "Gently, Handel. Don't be too eager." "And our old
32comrade, Startop!" I cried, as he too bent over me. "Remember what he is going to assist us in," said Herbert, "and be
33calm." The allusion made me spring up; though I dropped again from the pain in my arm. "The time has not gone by,
34Herbert, has it? What night is to-night? How long have I been here?" For, I had a strange and strong misgiving that I
35had been lying there a long time--a day and a night,--two days and nights,--more. "The time has not gone by. It is still
36Monday night." "Thank God!" "And you have all to-morrow, Tuesday, to rest in," said Herbert. "But you can't help
37groaning, my dear Handel. What hurt have you got? Can you stand?" "Yes, yes," said I, "I can walk. I have no hurt but in
38this throbbing arm." They laid it bare, and did what they could. It was violently swollen and inflamed, and I could
39scarcely endure to have it touched. But, they tore up their handkerchiefs to make fresh bandages, and carefully replaced
40it in the sling, until we could get to the town and obtain some cooling lotion to put upon it. In a little while we had
41shut the door of the dark and empty sluice-house, and were passing through the quarry on our way back. Trabb's
42boy--Trabb's overgrown young man now--went before us with a lantern, which was the light I had seen come in at the door.
43But, the moon was a good two hours higher than when I had last seen the sky, and the night, though rainy, was much
44lighter. The white vapour of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought
45a thanksgiving now. Entreating Herbert to tell me how he had come to my rescue,--which at first he had flatly refused to
46do, but had insisted on my remaining quiet,--I learnt that I had in my hurry dropped the letter, open, in our chambers,
47where he, coming home to bring with him Startop whom he had met in the street on his way to me, found it, very soon
48after I was gone. Its tone made him uneasy, and the more so because of the inconsistency between it and the hasty letter
49I had left for him. His uneasiness increasing instead of subsiding, after a quarter of an hour's consideration, he set
50off for the coach-office with Startop, who volunteered his company, to make inquiry when the next coach went down.
51Finding that the afternoon coach was gone, and finding that his uneasiness grew into positive alarm, as obstacles came
52in his way, he resolved to follow in a post-chaise. So he and Startop arrived at the Blue Boar, fully expecting there to
53find me, or tidings of me; but, finding neither, went on to Miss Havisham's, where they lost me. Hereupon they went back
54to the hotel (doubtless at about the time when I was hearing the popular local version of my own story) to refresh
55themselves and to get some one to guide them out upon the marshes. Among the loungers under the Boar's archway happened
56to be Trabb's Boy,--true to his ancient habit of happening to be everywhere where he had no business,--and Trabb's boy
57had seen me passing from Miss Havisham's in the direction of my dining-place. Thus Trabb's boy became their guide, and
58with him they went out to the sluice-house, though by the town way to the marshes, which I had avoided. Now, as they
59went along, Herbert reflected, that I might, after all, have been brought there on some genuine and serviceable errand
60tending to Provis's safety, and, bethinking himself that in that case interruption must be mischievous, left his guide
61and Startop on the edge of the quarry, and went on by himself, and stole round the house two or three times,
62endeavouring to ascertain whether all was right within. As he could hear nothing but indistinct sounds of one deep rough
63voice (this was while my mind was so busy), he even at last began to doubt whether I was there, when suddenly I cried
64out loudly, and he answered the cries, and rushed in, closely followed by the other two.
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