Breaking the silence they had hitherto preserved, they raised a great cry as soon as they were ranged before the jail, and demanded to speak to the governor. This visit was not wholly unexpected, for his house, which fronted the street, was strongly barricaded1, the wicket-gate of the prison was closed up, and at no loophole or grating was any person to be seen. Before they had repeated their summons many times, a man appeared upon the roof of the governor’s house, and asked what it was they wanted.
Some said one thing, some another, and some only groaned2 and hissed3. It being now nearly dark, and the house high, many persons in the throng4 were not aware that any one had come to answer them, and continued their clamour until the intelligence was gradually diffused5 through the whole concourse. Ten minutes or more elapsed before any one voice could be heard with tolerable distinctness; during which interval6 the figure remained perched alone, against the summer-evening sky, looking down into the troubled street.
‘Are you,’ said Hugh at length, ‘Mr Akerman, the head jailer here?’
‘Of course he is, brother,’ whispered Dennis. But Hugh, without minding him, took his answer from the man himself.
‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I am.’
‘You have got some friends of ours in your custody7, master.’
‘I have a good many people in my custody.’ He glanced downward, as he spoke8, into the jail: and the feeling that he could see into the different yards, and that he overlooked everything which was hidden from their view by the rugged9 walls, so lashed10 and goaded11 the mob, that they howled like wolves.
‘Deliver up our friends,’ said Hugh, ‘and you may keep the rest.’
‘It’s my duty to keep them all. I shall do my duty.’
‘If you don’t throw the doors open, we shall break ’em down,’ said Hugh; ‘for we will have the rioters out.’
‘All I can do, good people,’ Akerman replied, ‘is to exhort12 you to disperse13; and to remind you that the consequences of any disturbance14 in this place, will be very severe, and bitterly repented15 by most of you, when it is too late.’
He made as though he would retire when he said these words, but he was checked by the voice of the locksmith.
‘Mr Akerman,’ cried Gabriel, ‘Mr Akerman.’
‘I will hear no more from any of you,’ replied the governor, turning towards the speaker, and waving his hand.
‘But I am not one of them,’ said Gabriel. ‘I am an honest man, Mr Akerman; a respectable tradesman — Gabriel Varden, the locksmith. You know me?’
‘You among the crowd!’ cried the governor in an altered voice.
‘Brought here by force — brought here to pick the lock of the great door for them,’ rejoined the locksmith. ‘Bear witness for me, Mr Akerman, that I refuse to do it; and that I will not do it, come what may of my refusal. If any violence is done to me, please to remember this.’
‘Is there no way (if helping16 you?’ said the governor.
‘None, Mr Akerman. You’ll do your duty, and I’ll do mine. Once again, you robbers and cut-throats,’ said the locksmith, turning round upon them, ‘I refuse. Ah! Howl till you’re hoarse17. I refuse.’
‘Stay — stay!’ said the jailer, hastily. ‘Mr Varden, I know you for a worthy18 man, and one who would do no unlawful act except upon compulsion —’
‘Upon compulsion, sir,’ interposed the locksmith, who felt that the tone in which this was said, conveyed the speaker’s impression that he had ample excuse for yielding to the furious multitude who beset19 and hemmed20 him in, on every side, and among whom he stood, an old man, quite alone; ‘upon compulsion, sir, I’ll do nothing.’
‘Where is that man,’ said the keeper, anxiously, ‘who spoke to me just now?’
‘Here!’ Hugh replied.
‘Do you know what the guilt21 of murder is, and that by keeping that honest tradesman at your side you endanger his life!’
‘We know it very well,’ he answered, ‘for what else did we bring him here? Let’s have our friends, master, and you shall have your friend. Is that fair, lads?’
The mob replied to him with a loud Hurrah22!
‘You see how it is, sir?’ cried Varden. ‘Keep ’em out, in King George’s name. Remember what I have said. Good night!’
There was no more parley23. A shower of stones and other missiles compelled the keeper of the jail to retire; and the mob, pressing on, and swarming24 round the walls, forced Gabriel Varden close up to the door.
In vain the basket of tools was laid upon the ground before him, and he was urged in turn by promises, by blows, by offers of reward, and threats of instant death, to do the office for which they had brought him there. ‘No,’ cried the sturdy locksmith, ‘I will not!’
He had never loved his life so well as then, but nothing could move him. The savage25 faces that glared upon him, look where he would; the cries of those who thirsted, like wild animals, for his blood; the sight of men pressing forward, and trampling26 down their fellows, as they strove to reach him, and struck at him above the heads of other men, with axes and with iron bars; all failed to daunt27 him. He looked from man to man, and face to face, and still, with quickened breath and lessening28 colour, cried firmly, ‘I will not!’
Dennis dealt him a blow upon the face which felled him to the ground. He sprung up again like a man in the prime of life, and with blood upon his forehead, caught him by the throat.
‘You cowardly dog!’ he said: ‘Give me my daughter. Give me my daughter.’
They struggled together. Some cried ‘Kill him,’ and some (but they were not near enough) strove to trample29 him to death. Tug30 as he would at the old man’s wrists, the hangman could not force him to unclench his hands.
‘Is this all the return you make me, you ungrateful monster?’ he articulated with great difficulty, and with many oaths.
‘Give me my daughter!’ cried the locksmith, who was now as fierce as those who gathered round him: ‘Give me my daughter!’
He was down again, and up, and down once more, and buffeting31 with a score of them, who bandied him from hand to hand, when one tall fellow, fresh from a slaughter-house, whose dress and great thigh-boots smoked hot with grease and blood, raised a pole-axe, and swearing a horrible oath, aimed it at the old man’s uncovered head. At that instant, and in the very act, he fell himself, as if struck by lightning, and over his body a one-armed man came darting32 to the locksmith’s side. Another man was with him, and both caught the locksmith roughly in their grasp.
‘Leave him to us!’ they cried to Hugh — struggling, as they spoke, to force a passage backward through the crowd. ‘Leave him to us. Why do you waste your whole strength on such as he, when a couple of men can finish him in as many minutes! You lose time. Remember the prisoners! remember Barnaby!’
The cry ran through the mob. Hammers began to rattle33 on the walls; and every man strove to reach the prison, and be among the foremost rank. Fighting their way through the press and struggle, as desperately34 as if they were in the midst of enemies rather than their own friends, the two men retreated with the locksmith between them, and dragged him through the very heart of the concourse.
And now the strokes began to fall like hail upon the gate, and on the strong building; for those who could not reach the door, spent their fierce rage on anything — even on the great blocks of stone, which shivered their weapons into fragments, and made their hands and arms to tingle35 as if the walls were active in their stout36 resistance, and dealt them back their blows. The clash of iron ringing upon iron, mingled37 with the deafening38 tumult39 and sounded high above it, as the great sledge-hammers rattled40 on the nailed and plated door: the sparks flew off in showers; men worked in gangs, and at short intervals41 relieved each other, that all their strength might be devoted42 to the work; but there stood the portal still, as grim and dark and strong as ever, and, saving for the dints upon its battered43 surface, quite unchanged.
While some brought all their energies to bear upon this toilsome task; and some, rearing ladders against the prison, tried to clamber to the summit of the walls they were too short to scale; and some again engaged a body of police a hundred strong, and beat them back and trod them under foot by force of numbers; others besieged44 the house on which the jailer had appeared, and driving in the door, brought out his furniture, and piled it up against the prison-gate, to make a bonfire which should burn it down. As soon as this device was understood, all those who had laboured hitherto, cast down their tools and helped to swell45 the heap; which reached half-way across the street, and was so high, that those who threw more fuel on the top, got up by ladders. When all the keeper’s goods were flung upon this costly46 pile, to the last fragment, they smeared47 it with the pitch, and tar48, and rosin they had brought, and sprinkled it with turpentine. To all the woodwork round the prison-doors they did the like, leaving not a joist or beam untouched. This infernal christening performed, they fired the pile with lighted matches and with blazing tow, and then stood by, awaiting the result.
The furniture being very dry, and rendered more combustible49 by wax and oil, besides the arts they had used, took fire at once. The flames roared high and fiercely, blackening the prison-wall, and twining up its loftly front like burning serpents. At first they crowded round the blaze, and vented50 their exultation51 only in their looks: but when it grew hotter and fiercer — when it crackled, leaped, and roared, like a great furnace — when it shone upon the opposite houses, and lighted up not only the pale and wondering faces at the windows, but the inmost corners of each habitation — when through the deep red heat and glow, the fire was seen sporting and toying with the door, now clinging to its obdurate52 surface, now gliding53 off with fierce inconstancy and soaring high into the sky, anon returning to fold it in its burning grasp and lure54 it to its ruin — when it shone and gleamed so brightly that the church clock of St Sepulchre’s so often pointing to the hour of death, was legible as in broad day, and the vane upon its steeple-top glittered in the unwonted light like something richly jewelled — when blackened stone and sombre brick grew ruddy in the deep reflection, and windows shone like burnished55 gold, dotting the longest distance in the fiery56 vista57 with their specks58 of brightness — when wall and tower, and roof and chimney-stack, seemed drunk, and in the flickering59 glare appeared to reel and stagger — when scores of objects, never seen before, burst out upon the view, and things the most familiar put on some new aspect — then the mob began to join the whirl, and with loud yells, and shouts, and clamour, such as happily is seldom heard, bestirred themselves to feed the fire, and keep it at its height.
Although the heat was so intense that the paint on the houses over against the prison, parched60 and crackled up, and swelling61 into boils, as it were from excess of torture, broke and crumbled62 away; although the glass fell from the window-sashes, and the lead and iron on the roofs blistered63 the incautious hand that touched them, and the sparrows in the eaves took wing, and rendered giddy by the smoke, fell fluttering down upon the blazing pile; still the fire was tended unceasingly by busy hands, and round it, men were going always. They never slackened in their zeal64, or kept aloof65, but pressed upon the flames so hard, that those in front had much ado to save themselves from being thrust in; if one man swooned or dropped, a dozen struggled for his place, and that although they knew the pain, and thirst, and pressure to be unendurable. Those who fell down in fainting-fits, and were not crushed or burnt, were carried to an inn-yard close at hand, and dashed with water from a pump; of which buckets full were passed from man to man among the crowd; but such was the strong desire of all to drink, and such the fighting to be first, that, for the most part, the whole contents were spilled upon the ground, without the lips of one man being moistened.
Meanwhile, and in the midst of all the roar and outcry, those who were nearest to the pile, heaped up again the burning fragments that came toppling down, and raked the fire about the door, which, although a sheet of flame, was still a door fast locked and barred, and kept them out. Great pieces of blazing wood were passed, besides, above the people’s heads to such as stood about the ladders, and some of these, climbing up to the topmost stave, and holding on with one hand by the prison wall, exerted all their skill and force to cast these fire-brands on the roof, or down into the yards within. In many instances their efforts were successful; which occasioned a new and appalling66 addition to the horrors of the scene: for the prisoners within, seeing from between their bars that the fire caught in many places and thrived fiercely, and being all locked up in strong cells for the night, began to know that they were in danger of being burnt alive. This terrible fear, spreading from cell to cell and from yard to yard, vented itself in such dismal67 cries and wailings, and in such dreadful shrieks69 for help, that the whole jail resounded70 with the noise; which was loudly heard even above the shouting of the mob and roaring of the flames, and was so full of agony and despair, that it made the boldest tremble.
It was remarkable71 that these cries began in that quarter of the jail which fronted Newgate Street, where, it was well known, the men who were to suffer death on Thursday were confined. And not only were these four who had so short a time to live, the first to whom the dread68 of being burnt occurred, but they were, throughout, the most importunate72 of all: for they could be plainly heard, notwithstanding the great thickness of the walls, crying that the wind set that way, and that the flames would shortly reach them; and calling to the officers of the jail to come and quench74 the fire from a cistern75 which was in their yard, and full of water. Judging from what the crowd outside the walls could hear from time to time, these four doomed76 wretches77 never ceased to call for help; and that with as much distraction78, and in as great a frenzy79 of attachment80 to existence, as though each had an honoured, happy life before him, instead of eight-and-forty hours of miserable81 imprisonment82, and then a violent and shameful83 death.
But the anguish84 and suffering of the two sons of one of these men, when they heard, or fancied that they heard, their father’s voice, is past description. After wringing85 their hands and rushing to and fro as if they were stark86 mad, one mounted on the shoulders of his brother, and tried to clamber up the face of the high wall, guarded at the top with spikes87 and points of iron. And when he fell among the crowd, he was not deterred88 by his bruises89, but mounted up again, and fell again, and, when he found the feat90 impossible, began to beat the stones and tear them with his hands, as if he could that way make a breach91 in the strong building, and force a passage in. At last, they cleft92 their way among the mob about the door, though many men, a dozen times their match, had tried in vain to do so, and were seen, in — yes, in — the fire, striving to prize it down, with crowbars.
Nor were they alone affected93 by the outcry from within the prison. The women who were looking on, shrieked94 loudly, beat their hands together, stopped their ears; and many fainted: the men who were not near the walls and active in the siege, rather than do nothing, tore up the pavement of the street, and did so with a haste and fury they could not have surpassed if that had been the jail, and they were near their object. Not one living creature in the throng was for an instant still. The whole great mass were mad.
A shout! Another! Another yet, though few knew why, or what it meant. But those around the gate had seen it slowly yield, and drop from its topmost hinge. It hung on that side by but one, but it was upright still, because of the bar, and its having sunk, of its own weight, into the heap of ashes at its foot. There was now a gap at the top of the doorway95, through which could be descried96 a gloomy passage, cavernous and dark. Pile up the fire!
It burnt fiercely. The door was red-hot, and the gap wider. They vainly tried to shield their faces with their hands, and standing73 as if in readiness for a spring, watched the place. Dark figures, some crawling on their hands and knees, some carried in the arms of others, were seen to pass along the roof. It was plain the jail could hold out no longer. The keeper, and his officers, and their wives and children, were escaping. Pile up the fire!
The door sank down again: it settled deeper in the cinders97 — tottered98 — yielded — was down!
As they shouted again, they fell back, for a moment, and left a clear space about the fire that lay between them and the jail entry. Hugh leapt upon the blazing heap, and scattering99 a train of sparks into the air, and making the dark lobby glitter with those that hung upon his dress, dashed into the jail.
The hangman followed. And then so many rushed upon their track, that the fire got trodden down and thinly strewn about the street; but there was no need of it now, for, inside and out, the prison was in flames.
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85 wringing | |
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86 stark | |
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n.穗( spike的名词复数 );跑鞋;(防滑)鞋钉;尖状物v.加烈酒于( spike的第三人称单数 );偷偷地给某人的饮料加入(更多)酒精( 或药物);把尖状物钉入;打乱某人的计划 | |
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89 bruises | |
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90 feat | |
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95 doorway | |
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n.[物]散射;散乱,分散;在媒介质中的散播adj.散乱的;分散在不同范围的;广泛扩散的;(选票)数量分散的v.散射(scatter的ing形式);散布;驱散 | |
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