steward and mr jacob my passenger afterwards remembered � and waited for him in the dark by that very church which is now behind me as i had always the port of london i only knew the church through his pointing out its spire from on board perhaps i might recall if it were any good to try the way by which i went to it alone from the liver but how we two went om it to s shop i don t know � any more than i know what turns we took and we made after we left it the way was purposely confused no doubt but let me go on thinking the � ts out and avoid them with my speculations he took me by a straight way or a crooked way what is that to the purpose now steady john when we stopped at s and he asked scoundrel a question or two to refer only to the lodging houses in which there was accommodation for us had i the least suspicion of him none certainly none until afterwards when i held the clue i he must have got from in a paper the or whatever it was that afterwards me but i am far from sure all i felt safe in charging on him to night was old companionship in between them their intimacy and the i now know to bear made that not at all adventurous but i am not clear about the thinking out the circumstances on which i found my suspicion they are only two one i remember his changing a small folded paper from one pocket to another after we came out which he had not touched before two i now know to have been previously taken up for bein concerned in the robbery of an unlucky seaman to whom some such poison had been given it is my conviction that we cannot gone a mile from that th before we to the wall the dark doorway the flight of stairs and the room the night was dark and it rained as i think the back i hear the rain on the stone pavement of the passage which was not under the room overlooked the river or a dock or a creek and the tide was out being possessed of the time down to that i know by the that it must have been about low water but while the coffee waa getting ready i drew back the curtain a dark brown curtain and looking out knew by the kind of reflection below of the few neighbouring lights that they were reflected in mud he had earned under his ann a canvas bag containing a suit of his clothes i had no change of outer clothes me as i was to buy tou are wet mr � i can hear him saying � and i am quite under this good coat put on these clothes of mine you may find on trying them that they will answer your purpose to as well as ihe you mean to buy or better while you change hurry the hot coffee when he came back i had his on and there was a black man with him wearing a linen jacket like a steward who put the smoking coffee on the table in a tray and never looked at me i am so � literal and exact literal and exact i am certain now i pass to sick and impressions they are so strong that i rely upon them but there are spaces between them that i know nothing about and they are not pervaded by any idea of time had drank some coffee when to my sense t f sight he began to swell immensely and something urged me to rush at him we had a struggle near the door he got from me through my not knowing where to strike in the round of the room and the ing of flames of between us i dropped down lying helpless on the ground i was turned over by a foot i was dragged by the neck into a comer i heard men speak together i was turned over by other feet i saw a figure like myself lying dressed in my clothes on a bed what might have been for anything i knew a silence of days weeks months years was broken by a violent of men all over the room the figure like myself was assailed and my was in its hand i was trodden upon and over i heard a noise of blows and thought it was a cutting down a tree i could not have said that my name was john � i could not have thought it � i didn t know it � but when i heard the blows i thought of the wood and his axe and had some dead idea that i was lying in a forest this ib still correct still correct the exception that i cannot possibly express it to myself without using the word l but it was not l there was no such thing as i my knowledge it was only after a downward slide through something like a and then a great noise and a sparkling and as of fires that the came upon me this is john drowning i john for your life john call on heaven and save yourself i cried it out aloud in a great and then a heavy horrid unintelligible something vanished and it was i who was struggling there alone in the water i was very � nd with a d the over tlie blade water i saw the lights past me on the two of the river as if they eager to be gone and leave me dying in the dark the tide was down bat i knew nothing of up or down when guiding safely with heaven s before the � set of the 