Because I was urged to go there, by something stronger than my own will.

When I found him watching in the house she used to live in, night after night, I knew I never could escape him--never! and when I heard the Bell--' He shivered; muttered that it was very cold; paced quickly up and down the narrow cell; and sitting down again, fell into his old posture.
'You were saying,' said the blind man, after another pause, 'that when you heard the Bell--' 'Let it be, will you ?' he retorted in a hurried voice.

'It hangs there yet.' The blind man turned a wistful and inquisitive face towards him, but he continued to speak, without noticing him.
'I went to Chigwell, in search of the mob.

I have been so hunted and beset by this man, that I knew my only hope of safety lay in joining them.

They had gone on before; I followed them when it left off.' 'When what left off ?' 'The Bell.