He looked up; saw the blind man enter; and relapsed into his former position.
Guided by his breathing, the visitor advanced to where he sat; and stopping beside him, and stretching out his hand to assure himself that he was right, remained, for a good space, silent.
'This is bad, Rudge.

This is bad,' he said at length.
The prisoner shuffled with his feet upon the ground in turning his body from him, but made no other answer.
'How were you taken ?' he asked.

'And where?
You never told me more than half your secret.

No matter; I know it now.

How was it, and where, eh ?' he asked again, coming still nearer to him.
'At Chigwell,' said the other.
'At Chigwell! How came you there ?' 'Because I went there to avoid the man I stumbled on,' he answered.
'Because I was chased and driven there, by him and Fate.