No answer being returned, a move was made upstairs; the door was thrust open, and the discovery made that the bird had flown.
Away from the neighbour’s house he went to the Trent side, where he walked for a considerable distance.
When he considered himself safe from recognition, he entered a public-house, where he gave a man 1s. and a note for me.
The note was one asking me to go to him at the place where he was staying, but I declined, and the daughter of the house where I was living went to see him in my stead.
I sent him some money by her, and the answer he made me was that he did not care for all the detectives in England; that he would not lose sight of me; that he would not go away from the place without me.
I belonged, he said, to him, and he would not leave the neighbourhood without me.
He sent yet again, and then I met him by appointment in the evening time, and from that time we have always been together.
We came to London together, and took apartments in the Lambeth district, where he began again that career of crime which has made him so notorious.
But here again his character to the outside world was the same as it had ever been.
Though he was always regarded as a passionate man, he was at the same time looked upon as quiet, peaceable, and inoffensive, and in the highest degree respectable.