Since the convict showed up in my apartment, I have been trying to hide him from the police. We decided that Clara's house would be ideal because of its location on the river. I made a habit of rowing up and down the river daily, so that when the time came, I could escape with Magwitch without anybody thinking of it. Also, I found out that Compeyson is the convict who is enemies with Magwitch. Compeyson was the one that abandoned Miss Havisham on her wedding day. In addition, Magwitch had been married to Molly, who was insane at the time, and so he gave their daughter, Estella, to Miss Havisham to protect her. Compeyson had been using this criminal activity of Magwitch's wife to blackmail him. Now I am finally beginning to understand the full story between Estella, Miss Havisham, and the convicts.
"Him and Compeyson had been in a bad thing with a rich lady some years afore, and they'd made a pot of money by it..."
-Magwitch explaining Compeyson's past, page 369
"That evil genius, Compeyson, the worst of scoundrels among many scoundrels, knowing of his keeping out of the way at that time, and his reasons for doing so, of course afterwards held the knowledge over his head as a means of keeping him poorer, and working him harder."
-Herbert describing Compeyson's blackmailing of Magwitch, page 432
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