While I was thus endeavouring to occupy and provide for the intermediate period, till the violence of the pursuit after me might be abated1, a new source of danger opened upon me of which I had no previous suspicion.
Gines, the thief who had been expelled from Captain Raymond’s gang, had fluctuated, during the last years of his life, between the two professions of a violator of the laws and a retainer to their administration. He had originally devoted2 himself to the first; and probably his initiation3 in the mysteries of thieving qualified4 him to be peculiarly expert in the profession of a thief-taker — a profession he had adopted, not from choice, but necessity. In this employment his reputation was great, though perhaps not equal to his merits; for it happens here as in other departments of human society, that, however the subalterns may furnish wisdom and skill, the principals exclusively possess the éclat. He was exercising this art in a very prosperous manner, when it happened, by some accident, that one or two of his achievements previous to his having shaken off the dregs of unlicensed depredation6 were in danger of becoming subjects of public attention. Having had repeated intimations of this, he thought it prudent7 to decamp; and it was during this period of his retreat that he entered into the —— gang.
Such was the history of this man antecedently to his being placed in the situation in which I had first encountered him. At the time of that encounter he was a veteran of Captain Raymond’s gang; for thieves being a short-lived race, the character of veteran costs the less time in acquiring. Upon his expulsion from this community he returned once more to his lawful8 profession, and by his old comrades was received with congratulation as a lost sheep. In the vulgar classes of society no length of time is sufficient to expiate9 a crime; but among the honourable10 fraternity of thief-takers it is a rule never to bring one of their own brethren to a reckoning when it can with any decency11 be avoided. They are probably reluctant to fix an unnecessary stain upon the ermine of their profession. Another rule observed by those who have passed through the same gradation as Gines had done, and which was adopted by Gines himself, is always to reserve such as have been the accomplices12 of their depredations13 to the last, and on no account to assail14 them without great necessity or powerful temptation. For this reason, according to Gines’s system of tactics, Captain Raymond and his confederates were, as he would have termed it, safe from his retaliation15.
But, though Gines was, in this sense of the term, a man of strict honour, my case unfortunately did not fall within the laws of honour he acknowledged. Misfortune had overtaken me, and I was on all sides without protection or shelter. The persecution16 to which I was exposed was founded upon the supposition of my having committed felony to an immense amount. But in this Gines had had no participation17; he was careless whether the supposition were true or false, and hated me as much as if my innocence18 had been established beyond the reach of suspicion.
The blood-hunters who had taken me into custody19 at ——, related, as usual among their fraternity, a part of their adventure, and told of the reason which inclined them to suppose, that the individual who had passed through their custody, was the very Caleb Williams for whose apprehension20 a reward had been offered of a hundred guineas. Gines, whose acuteness was eminent21 in the way of his profession, by comparing facts and dates, was induced to suspect in his own mind, that Caleb Williams was the person he had hustled22 and wounded upon —— forest. Against that person he entertained the bitterest aversion. I had been the innocent occasion of his being expelled with disgrace from Captain Raymond’s gang; and Gines, as I afterwards understood, was intimately persuaded that there was no comparison between the liberal and manly23 profession of a robber from which I had driven him, and the sordid24 and mechanical occupation of a blood-hunter, to which he was obliged to return. He no sooner received the information I have mentioned than he vowed25 revenge. He determined26 to leave all other objects, and consecrate27 every faculty28 of his mind to the unkennelling me from my hiding-place. The offered reward, which his vanity made him consider as assuredly his own, appeared as the complete indemnification of his labour and expense. Thus I had to encounter the sagacity he possessed29 in the way of his profession, whetted30 and stimulated31 by a sentiment of vengeance32, in a mind that knew no restraint from conscience or humanity.
When I drew to myself a picture of my situation soon after having fixed33 on my present abode34, I foolishly thought, as the unhappy are accustomed to do, that my calamity35 would admit of no aggravation36. The aggravation which, unknown to me, at this time occurred was the most fearful that any imagination could have devised. Nothing could have happened more critically hostile to my future peace, than my fatal encounter with Gines upon —— forest. By this means, as it now appears, I had fastened upon myself a second enemy, of that singular and dreadful sort that is determined never to dismiss its animosity as long as life shall endure. While Falkland was the hungry lion whose roarings astonished and appalled37 me, Gines was a noxious38 insect, scarcely less formidable and tremendous, that hovered39 about my goings, and perpetually menaced me with the poison of his sting.
The first step pursued by him in execution of his project, was to set out for the sea-port town where I had formerly40 been apprehended41. From thence he traced me to the banks of the Severn, and from the banks of the Severn to London. It is scarcely necessary to observe that this is always practicable, provided the pursuer have motives42 strong enough to excite him to perseverance43, unless the precautions of the fugitive44 be, in the highest degree, both judicious45 in the conception, and fortunate in the execution. Gines indeed, in the course of his pursuit, was often obliged to double his steps; and, like the harrier, whenever he was at a fault, return to the place where he had last perceived the scent46 of the animal whose death he had decreed. He spared neither pains nor time in the gratification of the passion, which choice had made his ruling one.
Upon my arrival in town he for a moment lost all trace of me, London being a place in which, on account of the magnitude of its dimensions, it might well be supposed that an individual could remain hidden and unknown. But no difficulty could discourage this new adversary47. He went from inn to inn (reasonably supposing that there was no private house to which I could immediately repair), till he found, by the description he gave, and the recollections he excited, that I had slept for one night in the borough48 of Southwark. But he could get no further information. The people of the inn had no knowledge what had become of me the next morning.
This however did but render him more eager in the pursuit. The describing me was now more difficult, on account of the partial change of dress I had made the second day of my being in town. But Gines at length overcame the obstacle from that quarter.
Having traced me to my second inn, he was here furnished with a more copious49 information. I had been a subject of speculation50 for the leisure hours of some of the persons belonging to this inn. An old woman, of a most curious and loquacious51 disposition52, who lived opposite to it, and who that morning rose early to her washing, had espied53 me from her window, by the light of a large lamp which hung over the inn, as I issued from the gate. She had but a very imperfect view of me, but she thought there was something Jewish in my appearance. She was accustomed to hold a conference every morning with the landlady54 of the inn, some of the waiters and chambermaids occasionally assisting at it. In the course of the dialogue of this morning, she asked some questions about the Jew who had slept there the night before. No Jew had slept there. The curiosity of the landlady was excited in her turn. By the time of the morning it could be no other but me. It was very strange! They compared notes respecting my appearance and dress. No two things could be more dissimilar. The Jew Christian55, upon any dearth56 of subjects of intelligence, repeatedly furnished matter for their discourse57.
The information thus afforded to Gines appeared exceedingly material. But the performance did not for some time keep pace with the promise. He could not enter every private house into which lodgers58 were ever admitted, in the same manner that he had treated the inns. He walked the streets, and examined with a curious and inquisitive59 eye the countenance60 of every Jew about my stature61; but in vain. He repaired to Duke’s Place and the synagogues. It was not here that in reality he could calculate upon finding me; but he resorted to those means in despair, and as a last hope. He was more than once upon the point of giving up the pursuit; but he was recalled to it by an insatiable and restless appetite for revenge.
It was during this perturbed62 and fluctuating state of his mind, that he chanced to pay a visit to a brother of his, who was the head-workman of a printing-office. There was little intercourse63 between these two persons, their dispositions64 and habits of life being extremely dissimilar. The printer was industrious65, sober, inclined to methodism, and of a propensity66 to accumulation. He was extremely dissatisfied with the character and pursuits of his brother, and had made some ineffectual attempts to reclaim67 him. But, though they by no means agreed in their habits of thinking, they sometimes saw each other. Gines loved to boast of as many of his achievements as he dared venture to mention; and his brother was one more hearer, in addition to the set of his usual associates. The printer was amused with the blunt sagacity of remark and novelty of incident that characterised Gines’s conversation. He was secretly pleased, in spite of all his sober and church-going prejudices, that he was brother to a man of so much ingenuity68 and fortitude69.
After having listened for some time upon this occasion to the wonderful stories which Gines, in his rugged70 way, condescended71 to tell, the printer felt an ambition to entertain his brother in his turn. He began to retail73 some of my stories of Cartouche and Gusman d’Alfarache. The attention of Gines was excited. His first emotion was wonder; his second was envy and aversion. Where did the printer get these stories? This question was answered. “I will tell you what,” said the printer, “we none of us know what to make of the writer of these articles. He writes poetry, and morality, and history: I am a printer, and corrector of the press, and may pretend without vanity to be a tolerably good judge of these matters: he writes them all to my mind extremely fine; and yet he is no more than a Jew.” [To my honest printer this seemed as strange, as if they had been written by a Cherokee chieftain at the falls of the Mississippi.]
“A Jew! How do you know? Did you ever see him?”
“No; the matter is always brought to us by a woman. But my master hates mysteries; he likes to see his authors himself. So he plagues and plagues the old woman; but he can never get any thing out of her, except that one day she happened to drop that the young gentleman was a Jew.”
A Jew! a young gentleman! a person who did every thing by proxy74, and made a secret of all his motions! Here was abundant matter for the speculations75 and suspicions of Gines. He was confirmed in them, without adverting76 to the process of his own mind, by the subject of my lucubrations,— men who died by the hand of the executioner. He said little more to his brother, except asking, as if casually77, what sort of an old woman this was? of what age she might be? and whether she often brought him materials of this kind? and soon after took occasion to leave him. It was with vast pleasure that Gines had listened to this unhoped-for information. Having collected from his brother sufficient hints relative to the person and appearance of Mrs. Marney, and understanding that he expected to receive something from me the next day, Gines took his stand in the street early, that he might not risk miscarriage79 by negligence80. He waited several hours, but not without success. Mrs. Marney came; he watched her into the house; and after about twenty minutes delay, saw her return. He dogged her from street to street; observed her finally enter the door of a private house; and congratulated himself upon having at length arrived at the consummation of his labours.
The house she entered was not her own habitation. By a sort of miraculous81 accident she had observed Gines following her in the street. As she went home she saw a woman who had fallen down in a fainting fit. Moved by the compassion82 that was ever alive in her, she approached her, in order to render her assistance. Presently a crowd collected round them. Mrs. Marney, having done what she was able, once more proceeded homewards. Observing the crowd round her, the idea of pickpockets83 occurred to her mind; she put her hands to her sides, and at the same time looked round upon the populace. She had left the circle somewhat abruptly84; and Gines, who had been obliged to come nearer, lest he should lose her in the confusion, was at that moment standing78 exactly opposite to her. His visage was of the most extraordinary kind; habit had written the characters of malignant85 cunning and dauntless effrontery86 in every line of his face; and Mrs. Marney, who was neither philosopher nor physiognomist, was nevertheless struck. This good woman, like most persons of her notable character, had a peculiar5 way of going home, not through the open streets, but by narrow lanes and alleys87, with intricate insertions and sudden turnings. In one of these, by some accident, she once again caught a glance of her pursuer. This circumstance, together with the singularity of his appearance, awakened88 her conjectures89. Could he be following her? It was the middle of the day, and she could have no fears for herself. But could this circumstance have any reference to me? She recollected90 the precautions and secrecy91 I practised, and had no doubt that I had reasons for what I did. She recollected that she had always been upon her guard respecting me; but had she been sufficiently92 so? She thought that, if she should be the means of any mischief93 to me, she should be miserable94 for ever. She determined therefore, by way of precaution in case of the worst, to call at a friend’s house, and send me word of what had occurred. Having instructed her friend, she went out immediately upon a visit to a person in the exactly opposite direction, and desired her friend to proceed upon the errand to me, five minutes after she left the house. By this prudence95 she completely extricated96 me from the present danger.
Meantime the intelligence that was brought me by no means ascertained97 the greatness of the peril98. For any thing I could discover in it the circumstance might be perfectly99 innocent, and the fear solely100 proceed from the over-caution and kindness of this benevolent101 and excellent woman. Yet, such was the misery102 of my situation, I had no choice. For this menace or no menace, I was obliged to desert my habitation at a minute’s warning, taking with me nothing but what I could carry in my hand; to see my generous benefactress no more; to quit my little arrangements and provision; and to seek once again, in some forlorn retreat, new projects, and, if of that I could have any rational hope, a new friend. I descended72 into the street with a heavy, not an irresolute103 heart. It was broad day. I said, persons are at this moment supposed to be roaming the street in search of me: I must not trust to the chance of their pursuing one direction, and I another. I traversed half a dozen streets, and then dropped into an obscure house of entertainment for persons of small expense. In this house I took some refreshment104, passed several hours of active but melancholy105 thinking, and at last procured106 a bed. As soon however as it was dark I went out (for this was indispensable) to purchase the materials of a new disguise. Having adjusted it as well as I could during the night, I left this asylum107, with the same precautions that I had employed in former instances.
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compassion
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malignant
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effrontery
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