The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-07

] fded in him) had removed Magwltch to
/ another lodging--a room overlooking inc
river, which II would be easier II worst
came to worst, to get him on IL slip and
| SO out OF the country. H
! 10 do this II was necessary to walt
| for a favorable chance. So Pip, pro-
4 viding for Mugwitch's comfort meantime,
/ bought n bolt, and he and Herbert rowcd
daily up and down the river. SO that when
the time came to row tho convict to
! some sca-going ship they would be ac-
clstomed to all the turns OF the stream.
| Pip soon learned that Compcyson was
| their spy. Wopsle who in Plp's hoy
hood had been the clerk In tho village
i church., had turned actor (ha made, TO
be sure, u very poor onc!). and was now
playing In London. In tho theatre one
night he recognized In the audience the
! palc-faced convict whom he had once.
i with Joe, tho blacksmith. and little Pip.
seen dragged back to capture by his moro
i powerful fellow. Pip had long ago
learned from Magwitch that this man
was Compressor. and when Wopslo said
i he had scen him sitting directly back
!. Of Pip at the play, the latter realized
that they had this bitter enemy to
reckon with. and that Magwitch was In
i terrible danger.
i Only once was this time OF waiting
l interrupted and that was by letter
from, Miss 1iaysham begging Pip to
Il come to see her. He went. and she told
4 him slls realized now too late how wicked
4 her plans had been. and begged him
4 with tears to try to forgive her. Pip,
4 sore as his own heart was. forgave her
4 freely, and glad he was ever afterwurdg 4
Il that he had done so.
! For that Same night. while no was
Il standing near her. her ycllowed wedding
4 veil weeping too near the earth. caught
4 fire and In IN instant her whole dress
q burst into flame Pip worked desperate
~ to put out the fire. but she was
n so frghtfuly burned that 1t was plain
4 she could not live long. Ills own hands
and arms were painfully injured also
so that he returned to London with
one arm, for the time being. almost
Z useless.
In Compcyson, meanwhile. made friends
4 with Orlick.& and between them they
|;wrotc Pip n letter. decoying him to
4 lonely hut in the marshes When he
came there Orlck threw a roosc oyer
1 his head, tied him to the wall and would
S have killed him with a great stone
1 hammer but for Herbert. who broke. down
z the door and rushed in just in time to
4 put Orlick to flight and to save Plp's
4 life. Herbert had picked up the letter.
B Pip had thrown down. read 1t, seen IN
1t something s'Ypicious and had fol-
lowed from London.
& Pip saw now why he had been de-
K coyGd away. ana knew there was no
i time to lose II he wanted to save Mag
witch. They made haste to London,
and when night fell took the convict
In the rowboat and lay to a few miles
down the river, waiting to board a
4 steamer bound for Germany.
4 What happened next happened very
speedily They were about to board
( the steamer when a boat containing
a ,Compcyson and some police shot out from
the bank. Compeyson calling on Mag
i witch to surrender. The two boats
4 clashcd together and the steamer, unable
to stop, ran them both down. Al the
Il same moment Mngwitch seized Compey-
son and they went into the water to-
Z gcther.
Il When Pip came to himself the steamer
i had gone. his own boat had sunk and
he and Herbert had been dragged aboard
4 tho other. few moments later Mag
witch was picked up, badly injured IN
Il tho chest, and WAS handcuffcd. But
\ they never found compcyson--the other
had killed him In that fearful struggle
under water
jail and before many days he was tried
Il for returning to England and was SEN
tcnced to be hanged. But 1t was clear
! before this that his injury would never
let him live to suffer this penalty,
And now, as he saw The convict lying
day by day drawing nearer 70 death.
Il
his face, all the loathlng and repugnance
Pip had felt for him. vanished away,
He sat beside the sick man ut his trial;
now he sat beside his cot each day IN
I his cell. holding his hand. He knew now
there could be no posibility5of his taking
the fortune the convict would leave, for,5
being condemned to death, all his props
erty went to the Grown. But ne dla
not tell Mag witch, whose last hous were
not embittered by this knowledge.
One thing he discovered however, which
he told the dying man. This concerned
over the convlct's face Pip said: Dear
Magwitch, you had child once whom.
you loved and lost. She is living stIll.
She Is n lady and very beautiful. And
4 l love her'' And with this last glad
news, Magwitch died.
Before thisX erbert had left England
for Cairo, whittier his business took him.
A Left alone, after the strain, Pip fell sick
J Of a fever and In the midst Of this found
himself arrested for debt. That was
:. the last he knew for many weeks. When
I no came to himself he found Joe, the
true-hearted blacksmith, nursing him
He had paid Pip's debts, Miss Hayl-
> sham was dead and Orl!ck was serving
a jail sentence for robblng Uncle i'um-
hlehook's house.
Joes faithfuness smote Pip with a
sense Of his own ingratitude. After q
visit to tho old forge with Joe and Biddy,
} now Joe's wife, Pip felt how true were
; the old friends, ana buried forever the
past false pride and folly and knew him.
self for MI his trials nobler man.
) He sailed to Cairo. where he became
a clerk in Herbcrt's business house, and
J, finally partner and 1t was eleven years
before he was In England again,
Then ono day he went down to the
!, old ruined house where Miss liavlsham
4 had lived, lie entered the weed-grown
, garden, and there on q bench, sad,
beautiful widow. sat lIstella. Her hus-
/ band had treated her brutally TIL he
died, and sho had learned through suffer-
| Ing to know that she had a heart and
had thrown away the one thing that
could have made her happy--Plp's love,
J, When Pip and she left the old house
that day 1t was hand In hand. never