The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-12
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 Once or twice he cenfided in Joe that he wanted to be a gentleman, and Joe looking uncommonly helpless and be- | wiidered, replied that hs thought Pip | was a really learned gentlemen already.
 It was onliy by a strong effort that Pip could refrain from breaking out into . | mad burst of woe and laying bare all his grief and his hatred of the forge. Perhaps in the end he would have reached even this open pitch of ingrat.
 itude had not fairy godmother com. | unexpectedly. It was queer form. to
 be sure. in which the said fairy god. mother arriwed--in the form of, a tall
 man with an exceedingly dark com, | plexion. black, bushy eyebrows, large hands and disagreeably sharp eyes. Ht was the celebrated MT. Jaggers. whom Pip had once seen at Miss Havisham's | whose lawyer he was.
 He arrived at the Gargery house ono | day and announced that he had urusu- al business to transact. If my advice had been asked" said he. T should
 not have been here. I act merely as
 the agent. The communication Ihave to make to this young fellow is that he has great expectations. He will come into handsome property some day. It is the desire of the present owner of that property that he be brought up as a gentleman. There Is a sum of money in my hands to provide for this. Now. there are two conditions One is that he Is always to bear the name of Pip. The other is that the name of his benefactor must remain a profound se- cret till the person chooses to reveal 1t. There must never be any allusion or reference to 1t or inquiry about 1t. If you have suspicion in your own breast as to who 1t Is. keep 1t in your own breast. Will you accept the con- ditions7"
 Pip stammered that he would.
 And now am empowered to make you compensation for the loss of his services" said Mir. Jaggers. to Joe, pro- ducing a heavy purse.
 Joe laid his hand on Pip's shoulder, The great hand fell as gently as q woman's.
 Pip is that hearty welcome" said he, ''to so free to honor and forum as no words can tell him. But if you think as money can make compensation to me for the loss of the little child what come to the forge--and ever the best of friendsw His huge arm was before bis eyes and his voice died away.
 Many times afterward. long after ward. Pip saw him thus in his dreams, and felt the loving tremble of hls hand as solemnly as if 1t had been tha rustic of an angels wing. But not then. He was lost in the golden light of fortune, and he hastily tried to comfort Joe Joe rubbed his eyes again with his free hand, but said not another word.
 And so Pip went into the world and became q gentleman. Uncle Tumble ehook was overwhelmed with the praises of all his friends for having introduced the boy to Miss Havisharsa and so having made his fortune. He accepted the gratitude calmly and more than implied that he had suggested 1t to her. When Pip went to bid her farewell. he found her besieged by her relatives, who had gained admission to her at last. much to their own surprise. They, looked at Pip. inadvertently and Mss Havisham gloated openly over their discomhture
 Mr. Jaggers, who acted as hfs guar alan. placed him fin charge of Mir, Mat thew Pocket to be educated, explaining that Pip was not designed for a pro- fession and should be trained to hold hls own with young gentlemen of for tune. Fortunately Mir. Pocket was A man of extreme honor ana he mads Pin zealous and honorable in his studies.
 But though 1t thus happened that Pip did not give himself up to Idle courses. his great expectations, vouch- ca for as they were by such a man as MT, Jaggers. soon led him into extrav- egance. Besides his lodging with Mir. Pocket. he took rooms In London with Mf. Pockets son, who was "somethinx' in the shipping line, he could not say himself just what
 Soon these two were head over ears in debt. MT. Jaggers looked on si- lently and smiling and honored Pip's growing requests for money without comment T knew you would be get ting on," said he.
 
 never laughed. His clients trembled before him and accepted his services humbiy He looked on the whole world as reluctant witness under cross ex- animation. Even at his own table he cross examined his guests.
 His house was left ostentatiously open to attack. No bolt is ever drawn in my place." he often said to the cracksmen and thieves who were his clients. why don't you try to do some business with my plate?" He knew, and the world knew, that there was not thief who would dare. Ev- cry link in his watch chain was well known to the criminals of London. There was not a man. woman or child among them who would not have drop ped Mr. Jaggers's property like a hot coal had 1t come into their hands.
 Mir. Jaggers was surrounded with the evidences of his profession His ofice was ornanented with casts of the heads of gentlemen who had come to ultime- ly ends by the rope-generally when they were clients of another lawyer He and his chief clerk wore jewelry that had been given to them by grate- ful persons who had escaped unpleas- ant treatment from the law. His | was a woman whom he | had defended successfully in a trial l for numbering a rival many years ago. |
 Pip's first sight of this woman affect | ed him strangely. There was some | thing intangible about her pale face. her blue eyes and her 1.-the, nimble | figure that seemed to conjure lip some | memory. But the memory remained | elu sive--as elusive as the woman'g face | itself, which seemed to him as if 1t | were disturbed by fiery air. like a | face seen dirnly through lighted mists.
 Pip had boat on the river now, and | fine friends; and theatres and life kept | him so busy in London that he had no Joe did not come to see Pip in his | handsome London apartments after one visit. when he was sadly embar- rassed and called Pip sir When he said "goodby" that time. he said to | Pip: You and me is not two figures to be together in London. nor yet any where's else but what is private and understood among friends. And so Sod bless you. dear old Pip. old chap, Sod bless your
 However. if Pip did not have time to visit Joe. he did find time to visit Miss aavisham. Estella, who had been | sb road, had returned an elegant lady, proud and Willful and naughty as oP |