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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 11188 ***
+
+CAPTAINS ALL
+
+By W.W. Jacobs
+
+
+
+THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE
+
+[Illustration: "The Temptation of Samuel Burge."]
+
+Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing
+hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before.  It was
+a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the
+jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what
+etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an
+expected guest.
+
+"He must be coming by the last train after all, sir," said the
+housekeeper entering the room and glancing at the clock.  "I suppose
+these London gentlemen keep such late hours they don't understand us
+country folk wanting to get to bed in decent time.  You must be wanting
+your supper, sir."
+
+Mr. Higgs sighed.  "I shall be glad of my supper," he said slowly, "but I
+dare say our friend is hungrier still.  Travelling is hungry work."
+
+"Perhaps he is thinking over his words for the seventh day," said the
+housekeeper solemnly.  "Forgetting hunger and thirst and all our poor
+earthly feelings in the blessedness of his work."
+
+"Perhaps so," assented the other, whose own earthly feelings were
+particularly strong just at that moment.
+
+"Brother Simpson used to forget all about meal-times when he stayed
+here," said the housekeeper, clasping her hands.  "He used to sit by the
+window with his eyes half-closed and shake his head at the smell from the
+kitchen and call it flesh-pots of Egypt.  He said that if it wasn't for
+keeping up his strength for the work, luscious bread and fair water was
+all he wanted.  I expect Brother Burge will be a similar sort of man."
+
+"Brother Clark wrote and told me that he only lives for the work," said
+the jeweller, with another glance at the clock.  "The chapel at
+Clerkenwell is crowded to hear him.  It's a blessed favour and privilege
+to have such a selected instrument staying in the house.  I'm curious to
+see him; from what Brother Clark said I rather fancy that he was a little
+bit wild in his younger days."
+
+"Hallelujah!" exclaimed the housekeeper with fervour.  "I mean to think
+as he's seen the error of his ways," she added sharply, as her master
+looked up.
+
+"There he is," said the latter, as the bell rang.
+
+The housekeeper went to the side-door, and drawing back the bolt admitted
+the gentleman whose preaching had done so much for the small but select
+sect known as the Seventh Day Primitive Apostles.  She came back into the
+room followed by a tall stout man, whose upper lip and short stubby beard
+streaked with grey seemed a poor match for the beady eyes which lurked
+behind a pair of clumsy spectacles.
+
+"Brother Samuel Burge?" inquired the jeweller, rising.
+
+The visitor nodded, and regarding him with a smile charged with fraternal
+love, took his hand in a huge grip and shook it fervently.
+
+"I am glad to see you, Brother Higgs," he said, regarding him fondly.
+"Oh, 'ow my eyes have yearned to be set upon you!  Oh, 'ow my ears 'ave
+longed to hearken unto the words of your voice!"
+
+He breathed thickly, and taking a seat sat with his hands upon his knees,
+looking at a fine piece of cold beef which the housekeeper had just
+placed upon the table.
+
+"Is Brother Clark well?" inquired the jeweller, placing a chair for him
+at the table and taking up his carving-knife.
+
+"Dear Brother Clark is in excellent 'ealth, I thank you," said the other,
+taking the proffered chair.  "Oh! what a man he is; what a instrument for
+good.  Always stretching out them blessed hands of 'is to make one of the
+fallen a Seventh Day Primitive."
+
+"And success attends his efforts?" said the jeweller.
+
+"Success, Brother!" repeated Mr. Burge, eating rapidly and gesticulating
+with his knife.  "Success ain't no name for it.  Why, since this day last
+week he has saved three pick-pockets, two Salvationists, one bigamist and
+a Roman Catholic."
+
+Brother Higgs murmured his admiration.  "You are also a power for good,"
+he said wistfully.  "Brother Clark tells me in his letter that your
+exhortations have been abundantly blessed."
+
+Mr. Burge shook his head.  "A lot of it falls by the wayside," he said
+modestly, "but some of it is an eye-opener to them as don't entirely shut
+their ears.  Only the day before yesterday I 'ad two jemmies and a dark
+lantern sent me with a letter saying as 'ow the owner had no further use
+for 'em."
+
+The jeweller's eyes glistened with admiration not quite untinged with
+envy.  "Have you expounded the Word for long?" he inquired.
+
+"Six months," replied the other.  "It come to me quite natural--I was on
+the penitent bench on the Saturday, and the Wednesday afterwards I
+preached as good a sermon as ever I've preached in my life.  Brother
+Clark said it took 'is breath away."
+
+"And he's a judge too," said the admiring jeweller.
+
+"Now," continued Brother Burge, helping himself plentifully to pickled
+walnuts.  "Now there ain't standing room in our Bethel when I'm
+expounding.  People come to hear me from all parts--old and young--rich
+and poor--and the Apostles that don't come early 'ave to stand outside
+and catch the crumbs I throw 'em through the winders."
+
+"It is enough," sighed Brother Higgs, whose own audience was frequently
+content to be on the wrong side of the window, "it is enough to make a
+man vain."
+
+"I struggle against it, Brother," said Mr. Burge, passing his cup up for
+some more tea.  "I fight against it hard, but once the Evil One was
+almost too much for me; and in spite of myself, and knowing besides that
+it was a plot of 'is, I nearly felt uplifted."
+
+Brother Higgs, passing him some more beef, pressed for details.
+
+"He sent me two policemen," replied the other, scowling darkly at the
+meanness of the trick.  "One I might 'ave stood, but two come to being
+pretty near too much for me.  They sat under me while I gave 'em the Word
+'ot and strong, and the feeling I had standing up there and telling
+policemen what they ought to do I shall never forget."
+
+"But why should policemen make you proud?" asked his puzzled listener.
+
+Mr. Burge looked puzzled in his turn.  "Why, hasn't Brother Clark told
+you about me?" he inquired.
+
+Mr. Higgs shook his head.  "He sort of--suggested that--that you had been
+a little bit wild before you came to us," he murmured apologetically.
+
+"A--little--bit--wild?" repeated Brother Burge, in horrified accents.
+"ME? a little bit wild?"
+
+"No doubt he exaggerated a little," said the jeweller hurriedly.  "Being
+such a good man himself, no doubt things would seem wild to him that
+wouldn't to us--to me, I mean."
+
+"A little bit wild," said his visitor again.  "Sam Burge, the Converted
+Burglar, a little bit wild.  Well, well!"
+
+"Converted what?" shouted the jeweller, half-rising from his chair.
+
+"Burglar," said the other shortly.  "Why, I should think I know more
+about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near
+killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a
+footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've been a
+little bit wild.  I wonder what he would 'ave?"
+
+"But you--you've quite reformed now?" said the jeweller, resuming his
+seat and making a great effort to hide his consternation.
+
+"I 'ope so," said Mr. Burge, with alarming humility; "but it's an
+uncertain world, and far be it from me to boast.  That's why I've come
+here."
+
+Mr. Higgs, only half-comprehending, sat back gasping.
+
+"If I can stand this," pursued Brother Burge, gesticulating wildly in the
+direction of the shop, "if I can stand being here with all these 'ere
+pretty little things to be 'ad for the trouble of picking of 'em up, I
+can stand anything.  Tempt me, I says to Brother Clark.  Put me in the
+way o' temptation, I says.  Let me see whether the Evil One or me is the
+strongest; let me 'ave a good old up and down with the Powers o'
+Darkness, and see who wins."
+
+Mr. Higgs, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, gazed at this
+new Michael in speechless consternation.
+
+"I think I see his face now," said Brother Burge, with tender enthusiasm.
+"All in a glow it was, and he patted me on the shoulder and says, 'I'll
+send you on a week's mission to Duncombe,' he says, and 'you shall stop
+with Brother Higgs who 'as a shop full o' cunning wrought vanities in
+silver and gold.'"
+
+"But suppose," said the jeweller, finding his voice by a great effort,
+"suppose victory is not given unto you."
+
+"It won't make any difference," replied his visitor.  "Brother Clark
+promised that it shouldn't.  'If you fall, Brother,' he says, 'we'll help
+you up again.  When you are tired of sin come back to us--there's always
+a welcome.'"
+
+"But--" began the dismayed jeweller.
+
+"We can only do our best," said Brother Burge, "the rest we must leave.
+I 'ave girded my loins for the fray, and taken much spiritual sustenance
+on the way down from this little hymn-book."
+
+Mr. Higgs paid no heed.  He sat marvelling over the fatuousness of
+Brother Clark and trying to think of ways and means out of the dilemma
+into which that gentleman's perverted enthusiasm had placed him.  He
+wondered whether it would be possible to induce Brother Burge to sleep
+elsewhere by offering to bear his hotel expenses, and at last, after some
+hesitation, broached the subject.
+
+"What!" exclaimed the other, pushing his plate from him and regarding him
+with great severity.  "Go and sleep at a hotel?  After Brother Clark has
+been and took all this trouble?  Why, I wouldn't think of doing such a
+thing."
+
+"Brother Clark has no right to expose you to such a trial," said Mr.
+Higgs with great warmth.
+
+"I wonder what he'd say if he 'eard you," remarked Mr. Burge sternly.
+"After his going and making all these arrangements, for you to try and go
+and upset 'em.  To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to
+go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a
+Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal."
+
+"I should sleep far more comfortably if I knew that you were not
+undergoing this tremendous strain," said the unhappy Mr. Higgs, "and
+besides that, if you did give way, it would be a serious business for me
+--that's what I want you to look at.  I am afraid that if--if unhappily
+you did fall, I couldn't prevent you."
+
+"I'm sure you couldn't," said the other cordially.  "That's the beauty of
+it; that's when the Evil One's whispers get louder and louder.  Why, I
+could choke you between my finger and thumb.  If unfortunately my fallen
+nature should be too strong for me, don't interfere whatever you do.  I
+mightn't be myself."
+
+Mr. Higgs rose and faced him gasping.
+
+"Not even--call for--the police--I suppose," he jerked out.
+
+"That would be interfering," said Brother Burge coldly.
+
+The jeweller tried to think.  It was past eleven.  The housekeeper had
+gone to spend the night with an ailing sister, and a furtive glance at
+Brother Burge's small shifty eyes and fat unwholesome face was sufficient
+to deter him from leaving him alone with his property, while he went to
+ask the police to give an eye to his house for the night.  Besides, it
+was more than probable that Mr. Burge would decline to allow such a
+proceeding.  With a growing sense of his peril he resolved to try
+flattery.
+
+"It was a great thing for the Brethren to secure a man like you," he
+said.
+
+"I never thought they'd ha' done it," said Mr. Burge frankly.  "I've 'ad
+all sorts trying to convert me; crying over me and praying over me.  I
+remember the first dear good man that called me a lorst lamb.  He didn't
+say anything else for a month."
+
+"So upset," hazarded the jeweller.
+
+"I broke his jor, pore feller," said Brother Burge, a sad but withal
+indulgent smile lighting up his face at the vagaries of his former
+career.  "What time do you go to bed, Brother?"
+
+"Any time," said the other reluctantly.  "I suppose you are tired with
+your journey?"
+
+Mr. Burge assented, and rising from his chair yawned loudly and stretched
+himself.  In the small room with his huge arms raised he looked colossal.
+
+"I suppose," said the jeweller, still seeking to re-assure himself, "I
+suppose dear Brother Clark felt pretty certain of you, else he wouldn't
+have sent you here?"
+
+"Brother Clark said 'What is a jeweller's shop compared with a 'uman
+soul, a priceless 'uman soul?'" replied Mr. Burge.  "What is a few
+gew-gaws to decorate them that perish, and make them vain, when you come
+to consider the opportunity of such a trial, and the good it'll do and
+the draw it'll be--if I do win--and testify to the congregation to that
+effect?  Why, there's sermons for a lifetime in it."
+
+"So there is," said the jeweller, trying to look cheerful.  "You've got a
+good face, Brother Burge, and you'll do a lot of good by your preaching.
+There is honesty written in every feature."
+
+Mr. Burge turned and surveyed himself in the small pier-glass.  "Yes," he
+said, somewhat discontentedly, "I don't look enough like a burglar to
+suit some of 'em."
+
+"Some people are hard to please," said the other warmly.
+
+Mr. Burge started and eyed him thoughtfully, and then as Mr. Higgs after
+some hesitation walked into the shop to turn the gas out, stood in the
+doorway watching him.  A smothered sigh as he glanced round the shop bore
+witness to the state of his feelings.
+
+The jeweller hesitated again in the parlour, and then handing Brother
+Burge his candle turned out the gas, and led the way slowly upstairs to
+the room which had been prepared for the honoured visitor.  He shook
+hands at the door and bade him an effusive good-night, his voice
+trembling despite himself as he expressed a hope that Mr. Burge would
+sleep well.  He added casually that he himself was a very light sleeper.
+
+To-night sleep of any kind was impossible.  He had given up the front
+room to his guest, and his own window looked out on an over-grown garden.
+He sat trying to read, with his ears alert for the slightest sound.
+Brother Burge seemed to be a long time undressing.  For half an hour
+after he had retired he could hear him moving restlessly about his room.
+
+Twelve o'clock struck from the tower of the parish church, and was
+followed almost directly by the tall clock standing in the hall
+down-stairs.  Scarcely had the sounds died away than a low moaning from
+the next room caused the affrighted jeweller to start from his chair and
+place his ear against the wall.  Two or three hollow groans came through
+the plaster, followed by ejaculations which showed clearly that Brother
+Burge was at that moment engaged in a terrified combat with the Powers
+of Darkness to decide whether he should, or should not, rifle his host's
+shop.  His hands clenched and his ear pressed close to the wall, the
+jeweller listened to a monologue which increased in interest with every
+word.
+
+"I tell you I won't," said the voice in the next room with a groan, "I
+won't.  Get thee behind me--Get thee--No, and don't shove me over to the
+door; if you can't get behind me without doing that, stay where you are.
+Yes, I know it's a fortune as well as what you do; but it ain't mine."
+
+The listener caught his breath painfully.
+
+"Diamond rings," continued Brother Burge in a suffocating voice.  "Stop
+it, I tell you.  No, I won't just go and look at 'em."
+
+A series of groans which the jeweller noticed to his horror got weaker
+and weaker testified to the greatness of the temptation.  He heard
+Brother Burge rise, and then a succession of panting snarls seemed to
+indicate a fierce bodily encounter.
+
+"I don't--want to look at 'em," said Brother Burge in an exhausted voice.
+"What's--the good of--looking at 'em?  It's like you, you know diamonds
+are my weakness.  What does it matter if he is asleep?  What's my knife
+got to do with you?"
+
+Brother Higgs reeled back and a mist passed before his eyes.  He came to
+himself at the sound of a door opening, and impelled with a vague idea of
+defending his property, snatched up his candle and looked out on to the
+landing.
+
+The light fell on Brother Burge, fully dressed and holding his boots in
+his hand.  For a moment they gazed at each other in silence; then the
+jeweller found his voice.
+
+"I thought you were ill, Brother," he faltered.
+
+An ugly scowl lit up the other's features.  "Don't you tell me any of
+your lies," he said fiercely.  "You're watching me; that's what you're
+doing.  Spying on me."
+
+"I thought that you were being tempted," confessed the trembling Mr.
+Higgs.
+
+An expression of satisfaction which he strove to suppress appeared on Mr.
+Burge's face.
+
+"So I was," he said sternly.  "So I was; but that's my business.  I don't
+want your assistance; I can fight my own battles.  You go to bed--I'm
+going to tell the congregation I won the fight single-'anded."
+
+"So you have, Brother," said the other eagerly; "but it's doing me good
+to see it.  It's a lesson to me; a lesson to all of us the way you
+wrestled."
+
+"I thought you was asleep," growled Brother Burge, turning back to his
+room and speaking over his shoulder.  "You get back to bed; the fight
+ain't half over yet.  Get back to bed and keep quiet."
+
+The door closed behind him, and Mr. Higgs, still trembling, regained his
+room and looked in agony at the clock.  It was only half-past twelve and
+the sun did not rise until six.  He sat and shivered until a second
+instalment of groans in the next room brought him in desperation to his
+feet.
+
+Brother Burge was in the toils again, and the jeweller despite his fears
+could not help realizing what a sensation the story of his temptation
+would create.  Brother Burge was now going round and round his room like
+an animal in a cage, and sounds as of a soul wrought almost beyond
+endurance smote upon the listener's quivering ear.  Then there was a long
+silence more alarming even than the noise of the conflict.  Had Brother
+Burge won, and was he now sleeping the sleep of the righteous, or----
+Mr. Higgs shivered and put his other ear to the wall.  Then he heard his
+guest move stealthily across the floor; the boards creaked and the handle
+of the door turned.
+
+Mr. Higgs started, and with a sudden flash of courage born of anger and
+desperation seized a small brass poker from the fire-place, and taking
+the candle in his other hand went out on to the landing again.  Brother
+Burge was closing his door softly, and his face when he turned it upon
+the jeweller was terrible in its wrath.  His small eyes snapped with
+fury, and his huge hands opened and shut convulsively.
+
+"What, agin!" he said in a low growl.  "After all I told you!"
+
+Mr. Higgs backed slowly as he advanced.
+
+"No noise," said Mr. Burge in a dreadful whisper.  "One scream and I'll--
+What were you going to do with that poker?"
+
+He took a stealthy step forward.
+
+"I--I," began the jeweller.  His voice failed him.  "Burglars," he
+mouthed, "downstairs."
+
+"What?" said the other, pausing.
+
+Mr. Higgs threw truth to the winds. "I heard them in the shop," he said,
+recovering, "that's why I took up the poker.  Can't you hear them?"
+
+Mr. Burge listened for the fraction of a second.  "Nonsense," he said
+huskily.
+
+"I heard them talking," said the other recklessly.  "Let's go down and
+call the police."
+
+"Call 'em from the winder," said Brother Burge, backing with some haste,
+"they might 'ave pistols or something, and they're ugly customers when
+they're disturbed."
+
+He stood with strained face listening.
+
+"Here they come," whispered the jeweller with a sudden movement of alarm.
+
+Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and
+locked it.  The jeweller stood dumbfounded on the landing; then he heard
+the window go up and the voice of Brother Burge, much strengthened by the
+religious exercises of the past six months, bellowing lustily for the
+police.
+
+For a few seconds Mr. Higgs stood listening and wondering what
+explanation he should give.  Still thinking, he ran downstairs, and,
+throwing open the pantry window, unlocked the door leading into the shop
+and scattered a few of his cherished possessions about the floor.  By the
+time he had done this, people were already beating upon the street-door
+and exchanging hurried remarks with Mr. Burge at the window above.  The
+jeweller shot back the bolts, and half-a-dozen neighbours, headed by the
+butcher opposite, clad in his nightgown and armed with a cleaver, burst
+into the passage.  A constable came running up just as the pallid face of
+Brother Burge peered over the balusters.  The constable went upstairs
+three at a time, and twisting his hand in the ex-burglar's neck-cloth
+bore him backwards.
+
+"I've got one," he shouted.  "Come up and hold him while I look round."
+
+The butcher was beside him in a moment; Brother Burge struggling wildly,
+called loudly upon the name of Brother Higgs.
+
+"That's all right, constable," said the latter, "that's a friend of
+mine."
+
+"Friend o' yours, sir?" said the disappointed officer, still holding him.
+
+The jeweller nodded.  "Mr. Samuel Burge the Converted Burglar," he said
+mechanically.
+
+"Conver----" gasped the astonished constable.  "Converted burglar?
+Here!"
+
+"He is a preacher now," added Mr. Higgs.
+
+"Preacher?" retorted the constable.  "Why it's as plain as a pikestaff.
+Confederates: his part was to go down and let 'em in."
+
+Mr. Burge raised a piteous outcry.  "I hope you may be forgiven for them
+words," he cried piously.
+
+"What time did you go up to bed?" pursued the constable.
+
+"About half-past eleven," replied Mr. Higgs.
+
+The other grunted with satisfaction.  "And he's fully dressed, with his
+boots off," he remarked.  "Did you hear him go out of his room at all?"
+
+"He did go out," said the jeweller truth-fully, "but----"
+
+"I thought so," said the constable, turning to his prisoner with
+affectionate solicitude.  "Now you come along o' me.  Come quietly,
+because it'll be the best for you in the end."
+
+"You won't get your skull split open then," added the butcher, toying
+with his cleaver.
+
+The jeweller hesitated.  He had no desire to be left alone with Mr. Burge
+again; and a sense of humour, which many years' association with the
+Primitive Apostles had not quite eradicated, strove for hearing.
+
+"Think of the sermon it'll make," he said encouragingly to the frantic
+Mr. Burge, "think of the congregation!"
+
+Brother Burge replied in language which he had not used in public since
+he had joined the Apostles.  The butcher and another man stood guard over
+him while the constable searched the premises and made all secure again.
+Then with a final appeal to Mr. Higgs who was keeping in the background,
+he was pitched to the police-station by the energetic constable and five
+zealous assistants.
+
+A diffidence, natural in the circumstances, prevented him from narrating
+the story of his temptation to the magistrates next morning, and Mr.
+Higgs was equally reticent.  He was put back while the police
+communicated with London, and in the meantime Brother Clark and a band
+of Apostles flanked down to his support.
+
+On his second appearance before the magistrates he was confronted with
+his past; and his past to the great astonishment of the Brethren being
+free from all blemish with the solitary exception of fourteen days for
+stealing milk-cans, he was discharged with a caution.  The disillusioned
+Primitive Apostles also gave him his freedom.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+Produced by David Widger
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+</pre>
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+
+<h1>
+    CAPTAINS ALL
+</h1>
+<br />
+<h2>
+    By W.W. Jacobs
+</h2>
+<br /><br />
+
+<center>
+<h2>Book 8.</h2>
+</center>
+<br><br>
+<center>
+<img alt="title (79K)" src="title.jpg" height="884" width="533" />
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+<br><br>
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+<hr>
+<br /><br />
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+<h2>List of Illustrations</h2>
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+<p class="toc"><a href="#image-13">
+"The Temptation of Samuel Burge."
+</a></p>
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+</table>
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+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<p>&nbsp;</p>
+<h2>
+    THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE
+</h2>
+<a name="image-13"><!--IMG--></a>
+<center>
+<img src="013.jpg" height="406" width="389"
+alt="'the Temptation of Samuel Burge.'
+">
+</center>
+<!--IMAGE END-->
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing
+    hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before.  It was
+    a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the
+    jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what
+    etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an
+    expected guest.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He must be coming by the last train after all, sir," said the
+    housekeeper entering the room and glancing at the clock.  "I suppose
+    these London gentlemen keep such late hours they don't understand us
+    country folk wanting to get to bed in decent time.  You must be wanting
+    your supper, sir."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs sighed.  "I shall be glad of my supper," he said slowly, "but I
+    dare say our friend is hungrier still.  Travelling is hungry work."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Perhaps he is thinking over his words for the seventh day," said the
+    housekeeper solemnly.  "Forgetting hunger and thirst and all our poor
+    earthly feelings in the blessedness of his work."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Perhaps so," assented the other, whose own earthly feelings were
+    particularly strong just at that moment.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Simpson used to forget all about meal-times when he stayed
+    here," said the housekeeper, clasping her hands.  "He used to sit by the
+    window with his eyes half-closed and shake his head at the smell from the
+    kitchen and call it flesh-pots of Egypt.  He said that if it wasn't for
+    keeping up his strength for the work, luscious bread and fair water was
+    all he wanted.  I expect Brother Burge will be a similar sort of man."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Clark wrote and told me that he only lives for the work," said
+    the jeweller, with another glance at the clock.  "The chapel at
+    Clerkenwell is crowded to hear him.  It's a blessed favour and privilege
+    to have such a selected instrument staying in the house.  I'm curious to
+    see him; from what Brother Clark said I rather fancy that he was a little
+    bit wild in his younger days."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Hallelujah!" exclaimed the housekeeper with fervour.  "I mean to think
+    as he's seen the error of his ways," she added sharply, as her master
+    looked up.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "There he is," said the latter, as the bell rang.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The housekeeper went to the side-door, and drawing back the bolt admitted
+    the gentleman whose preaching had done so much for the small but select
+    sect known as the Seventh Day Primitive Apostles.  She came back into the
+    room followed by a tall stout man, whose upper lip and short stubby beard
+    streaked with grey seemed a poor match for the beady eyes which lurked
+    behind a pair of clumsy spectacles.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Samuel Burge?" inquired the jeweller, rising.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The visitor nodded, and regarding him with a smile charged with fraternal
+    love, took his hand in a huge grip and shook it fervently.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I am glad to see you, Brother Higgs," he said, regarding him fondly.
+    "Oh, 'ow my eyes have yearned to be set upon you!  Oh, 'ow my ears 'ave
+    longed to hearken unto the words of your voice!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    He breathed thickly, and taking a seat sat with his hands upon his knees,
+    looking at a fine piece of cold beef which the housekeeper had just
+    placed upon the table.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Is Brother Clark well?" inquired the jeweller, placing a chair for him
+    at the table and taking up his carving-knife.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Dear Brother Clark is in excellent 'ealth, I thank you," said the other,
+    taking the proffered chair.  "Oh! what a man he is; what a instrument for
+    good.  Always stretching out them blessed hands of 'is to make one of the
+    fallen a Seventh Day Primitive."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "And success attends his efforts?" said the jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Success, Brother!" repeated Mr. Burge, eating rapidly and gesticulating
+    with his knife.  "Success ain't no name for it.  Why, since this day last
+    week he has saved three pick-pockets, two Salvationists, one bigamist and
+    a Roman Catholic."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Higgs murmured his admiration.  "You are also a power for good,"
+    he said wistfully.  "Brother Clark tells me in his letter that your
+    exhortations have been abundantly blessed."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge shook his head.  "A lot of it falls by the wayside," he said
+    modestly, "but some of it is an eye-opener to them as don't entirely shut
+    their ears.  Only the day before yesterday I 'ad two jemmies and a dark
+    lantern sent me with a letter saying as 'ow the owner had no further use
+    for 'em."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller's eyes glistened with admiration not quite untinged with
+    envy.  "Have you expounded the Word for long?" he inquired.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Six months," replied the other.  "It come to me quite natural&mdash;I was on
+    the penitent bench on the Saturday, and the Wednesday afterwards I
+    preached as good a sermon as ever I've preached in my life.  Brother
+    Clark said it took 'is breath away."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "And he's a judge too," said the admiring jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Now," continued Brother Burge, helping himself plentifully to pickled
+    walnuts.  "Now there ain't standing room in our Bethel when I'm
+    expounding.  People come to hear me from all parts&mdash;old and young&mdash;rich
+    and poor&mdash;and the Apostles that don't come early 'ave to stand outside
+    and catch the crumbs I throw 'em through the winders."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "It is enough," sighed Brother Higgs, whose own audience was frequently
+    content to be on the wrong side of the window, "it is enough to make a
+    man vain."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I struggle against it, Brother," said Mr. Burge, passing his cup up for
+    some more tea.  "I fight against it hard, but once the Evil One was
+    almost too much for me; and in spite of myself, and knowing besides that
+    it was a plot of 'is, I nearly felt uplifted."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Higgs, passing him some more beef, pressed for details.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He sent me two policemen," replied the other, scowling darkly at the
+    meanness of the trick.  "One I might 'ave stood, but two come to being
+    pretty near too much for me.  They sat under me while I gave 'em the Word
+    'ot and strong, and the feeling I had standing up there and telling
+    policemen what they ought to do I shall never forget."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But why should policemen make you proud?" asked his puzzled listener.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge looked puzzled in his turn.  "Why, hasn't Brother Clark told
+    you about me?" he inquired.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs shook his head.  "He sort of&mdash;suggested that&mdash;that you had been
+    a little bit wild before you came to us," he murmured apologetically.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "A&mdash;little&mdash;bit&mdash;wild?" repeated Brother Burge, in horrified accents.
+    "ME? a little bit wild?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "No doubt he exaggerated a little," said the jeweller hurriedly.  "Being
+    such a good man himself, no doubt things would seem wild to him that
+    wouldn't to us&mdash;to me, I mean."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "A little bit wild," said his visitor again.  "Sam Burge, the Converted
+    Burglar, a little bit wild.  Well, well!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Converted what?" shouted the jeweller, half-rising from his chair.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Burglar," said the other shortly.  "Why, I should think I know more
+    about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near
+    killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a
+    footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've been a
+    little bit wild.  I wonder what he would 'ave?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But you&mdash;you've quite reformed now?" said the jeweller, resuming his
+    seat and making a great effort to hide his consternation.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I 'ope so," said Mr. Burge, with alarming humility; "but it's an
+    uncertain world, and far be it from me to boast.  That's why I've come
+    here."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs, only half-comprehending, sat back gasping.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "If I can stand this," pursued Brother Burge, gesticulating wildly in the
+    direction of the shop, "if I can stand being here with all these 'ere
+    pretty little things to be 'ad for the trouble of picking of 'em up, I
+    can stand anything.  Tempt me, I says to Brother Clark.  Put me in the
+    way o' temptation, I says.  Let me see whether the Evil One or me is the
+    strongest; let me 'ave a good old up and down with the Powers o'
+    Darkness, and see who wins."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, gazed at this
+    new Michael in speechless consternation.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I think I see his face now," said Brother Burge, with tender enthusiasm.
+    "All in a glow it was, and he patted me on the shoulder and says, 'I'll
+    send you on a week's mission to Duncombe,' he says, and 'you shall stop
+    with Brother Higgs who 'as a shop full o' cunning wrought vanities in
+    silver and gold.'"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But suppose," said the jeweller, finding his voice by a great effort,
+    "suppose victory is not given unto you."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "It won't make any difference," replied his visitor.  "Brother Clark
+    promised that it shouldn't.  'If you fall, Brother,' he says, 'we'll help
+    you up again.  When you are tired of sin come back to us&mdash;there's always
+    a welcome.'"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But&mdash;" began the dismayed jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "We can only do our best," said Brother Burge, "the rest we must leave.
+    I 'ave girded my loins for the fray, and taken much spiritual sustenance
+    on the way down from this little hymn-book."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs paid no heed.  He sat marvelling over the fatuousness of
+    Brother Clark and trying to think of ways and means out of the dilemma
+    into which that gentleman's perverted enthusiasm had placed him.  He
+    wondered whether it would be possible to induce Brother Burge to sleep
+    elsewhere by offering to bear his hotel expenses, and at last, after some
+    hesitation, broached the subject.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What!" exclaimed the other, pushing his plate from him and regarding him
+    with great severity.  "Go and sleep at a hotel?  After Brother Clark has
+    been and took all this trouble?  Why, I wouldn't think of doing such a
+    thing."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Clark has no right to expose you to such a trial," said Mr.
+    Higgs with great warmth.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I wonder what he'd say if he 'eard you," remarked Mr. Burge sternly.
+    "After his going and making all these arrangements, for you to try and go
+    and upset 'em.  To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to
+    go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a
+    Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I should sleep far more comfortably if I knew that you were not
+    undergoing this tremendous strain," said the unhappy Mr. Higgs, "and
+    besides that, if you did give way, it would be a serious business for me
+    &mdash;that's what I want you to look at.  I am afraid that if&mdash;if unhappily
+    you did fall, I couldn't prevent you."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I'm sure you couldn't," said the other cordially.  "That's the beauty of
+    it; that's when the Evil One's whispers get louder and louder.  Why, I
+    could choke you between my finger and thumb.  If unfortunately my fallen
+    nature should be too strong for me, don't interfere whatever you do.  I
+    mightn't be myself."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs rose and faced him gasping.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Not even&mdash;call for&mdash;the police&mdash;I suppose," he jerked out.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "That would be interfering," said Brother Burge coldly.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller tried to think.  It was past eleven.  The housekeeper had
+    gone to spend the night with an ailing sister, and a furtive glance at
+    Brother Burge's small shifty eyes and fat unwholesome face was sufficient
+    to deter him from leaving him alone with his property, while he went to
+    ask the police to give an eye to his house for the night.  Besides, it
+    was more than probable that Mr. Burge would decline to allow such a
+    proceeding.  With a growing sense of his peril he resolved to try
+    flattery.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "It was a great thing for the Brethren to secure a man like you," he
+    said.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I never thought they'd ha' done it," said Mr. Burge frankly.  "I've 'ad
+    all sorts trying to convert me; crying over me and praying over me.  I
+    remember the first dear good man that called me a lorst lamb.  He didn't
+    say anything else for a month."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So upset," hazarded the jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I broke his jor, pore feller," said Brother Burge, a sad but withal
+    indulgent smile lighting up his face at the vagaries of his former
+    career.  "What time do you go to bed, Brother?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Any time," said the other reluctantly.  "I suppose you are tired with
+    your journey?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge assented, and rising from his chair yawned loudly and stretched
+    himself.  In the small room with his huge arms raised he looked colossal.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I suppose," said the jeweller, still seeking to re-assure himself, "I
+    suppose dear Brother Clark felt pretty certain of you, else he wouldn't
+    have sent you here?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Clark said 'What is a jeweller's shop compared with a 'uman
+    soul, a priceless 'uman soul?'" replied Mr. Burge.  "What is a few
+    gew-gaws to decorate them that perish, and make them vain, when you come
+    to consider the opportunity of such a trial, and the good it'll do and
+    the draw it'll be&mdash;if I do win&mdash;and testify to the congregation to that
+    effect?  Why, there's sermons for a lifetime in it."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So there is," said the jeweller, trying to look cheerful.  "You've got a
+    good face, Brother Burge, and you'll do a lot of good by your preaching.
+    There is honesty written in every feature."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge turned and surveyed himself in the small pier-glass.  "Yes," he
+    said, somewhat discontentedly, "I don't look enough like a burglar to
+    suit some of 'em."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Some people are hard to please," said the other warmly.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge started and eyed him thoughtfully, and then as Mr. Higgs after
+    some hesitation walked into the shop to turn the gas out, stood in the
+    doorway watching him.  A smothered sigh as he glanced round the shop bore
+    witness to the state of his feelings.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller hesitated again in the parlour, and then handing Brother
+    Burge his candle turned out the gas, and led the way slowly upstairs to
+    the room which had been prepared for the honoured visitor.  He shook
+    hands at the door and bade him an effusive good-night, his voice
+    trembling despite himself as he expressed a hope that Mr. Burge would
+    sleep well.  He added casually that he himself was a very light sleeper.
+</p>
+<p>
+    To-night sleep of any kind was impossible.  He had given up the front
+    room to his guest, and his own window looked out on an over-grown garden.
+    He sat trying to read, with his ears alert for the slightest sound.
+    Brother Burge seemed to be a long time undressing.  For half an hour
+    after he had retired he could hear him moving restlessly about his room.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Twelve o'clock struck from the tower of the parish church, and was
+    followed almost directly by the tall clock standing in the hall
+    down-stairs.  Scarcely had the sounds died away than a low moaning from
+    the next room caused the affrighted jeweller to start from his chair and
+    place his ear against the wall.  Two or three hollow groans came through
+    the plaster, followed by ejaculations which showed clearly that Brother
+    Burge was at that moment engaged in a terrified combat with the Powers
+    of Darkness to decide whether he should, or should not, rifle his host's
+    shop.  His hands clenched and his ear pressed close to the wall, the
+    jeweller listened to a monologue which increased in interest with every
+    word.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I tell you I won't," said the voice in the next room with a groan, "I
+    won't.  Get thee behind me&mdash;Get thee&mdash;No, and don't shove me over to the
+    door; if you can't get behind me without doing that, stay where you are.
+    Yes, I know it's a fortune as well as what you do; but it ain't mine."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The listener caught his breath painfully.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Diamond rings," continued Brother Burge in a suffocating voice.  "Stop
+    it, I tell you.  No, I won't just go and look at 'em."
+</p>
+<p>
+    A series of groans which the jeweller noticed to his horror got weaker
+    and weaker testified to the greatness of the temptation.  He heard
+    Brother Burge rise, and then a succession of panting snarls seemed to
+    indicate a fierce bodily encounter.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I don't&mdash;want to look at 'em," said Brother Burge in an exhausted voice.
+    "What's&mdash;the good of&mdash;looking at 'em?  It's like you, you know diamonds
+    are my weakness.  What does it matter if he is asleep?  What's my knife
+    got to do with you?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Higgs reeled back and a mist passed before his eyes.  He came to
+    himself at the sound of a door opening, and impelled with a vague idea of
+    defending his property, snatched up his candle and looked out on to the
+    landing.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The light fell on Brother Burge, fully dressed and holding his boots in
+    his hand.  For a moment they gazed at each other in silence; then the
+    jeweller found his voice.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought you were ill, Brother," he faltered.
+</p>
+<p>
+    An ugly scowl lit up the other's features.  "Don't you tell me any of
+    your lies," he said fiercely.  "You're watching me; that's what you're
+    doing.  Spying on me."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought that you were being tempted," confessed the trembling Mr.
+    Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    An expression of satisfaction which he strove to suppress appeared on Mr.
+    Burge's face.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So I was," he said sternly.  "So I was; but that's my business.  I don't
+    want your assistance; I can fight my own battles.  You go to bed&mdash;I'm
+    going to tell the congregation I won the fight single-'anded."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So you have, Brother," said the other eagerly; "but it's doing me good
+    to see it.  It's a lesson to me; a lesson to all of us the way you
+    wrestled."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought you was asleep," growled Brother Burge, turning back to his
+    room and speaking over his shoulder.  "You get back to bed; the fight
+    ain't half over yet.  Get back to bed and keep quiet."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The door closed behind him, and Mr. Higgs, still trembling, regained his
+    room and looked in agony at the clock.  It was only half-past twelve and
+    the sun did not rise until six.  He sat and shivered until a second
+    instalment of groans in the next room brought him in desperation to his
+    feet.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Burge was in the toils again, and the jeweller despite his fears
+    could not help realizing what a sensation the story of his temptation
+    would create.  Brother Burge was now going round and round his room like
+    an animal in a cage, and sounds as of a soul wrought almost beyond
+    endurance smote upon the listener's quivering ear.  Then there was a long
+    silence more alarming even than the noise of the conflict.  Had Brother
+    Burge won, and was he now sleeping the sleep of the righteous, or&mdash;&mdash;
+    Mr. Higgs shivered and put his other ear to the wall.  Then he heard his
+    guest move stealthily across the floor; the boards creaked and the handle
+    of the door turned.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs started, and with a sudden flash of courage born of anger and
+    desperation seized a small brass poker from the fire-place, and taking
+    the candle in his other hand went out on to the landing again.  Brother
+    Burge was closing his door softly, and his face when he turned it upon
+    the jeweller was terrible in its wrath.  His small eyes snapped with
+    fury, and his huge hands opened and shut convulsively.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What, agin!" he said in a low growl.  "After all I told you!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs backed slowly as he advanced.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "No noise," said Mr. Burge in a dreadful whisper.  "One scream and I'll&mdash;
+    What were you going to do with that poker?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    He took a stealthy step forward.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I&mdash;I," began the jeweller.  His voice failed him.  "Burglars," he
+    mouthed, "downstairs."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What?" said the other, pausing.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs threw truth to the winds. "I heard them in the shop," he said,
+    recovering, "that's why I took up the poker.  Can't you hear them?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge listened for the fraction of a second.  "Nonsense," he said
+    huskily.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I heard them talking," said the other recklessly.  "Let's go down and
+    call the police."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Call 'em from the winder," said Brother Burge, backing with some haste,
+    "they might 'ave pistols or something, and they're ugly customers when
+    they're disturbed."
+</p>
+<p>
+    He stood with strained face listening.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Here they come," whispered the jeweller with a sudden movement of alarm.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and
+    locked it.  The jeweller stood dumbfounded on the landing; then he heard
+    the window go up and the voice of Brother Burge, much strengthened by the
+    religious exercises of the past six months, bellowing lustily for the
+    police.
+</p>
+<p>
+    For a few seconds Mr. Higgs stood listening and wondering what
+    explanation he should give.  Still thinking, he ran downstairs, and,
+    throwing open the pantry window, unlocked the door leading into the shop
+    and scattered a few of his cherished possessions about the floor.  By the
+    time he had done this, people were already beating upon the street-door
+    and exchanging hurried remarks with Mr. Burge at the window above.  The
+    jeweller shot back the bolts, and half-a-dozen neighbours, headed by the
+    butcher opposite, clad in his nightgown and armed with a cleaver, burst
+    into the passage.  A constable came running up just as the pallid face of
+    Brother Burge peered over the balusters.  The constable went upstairs
+    three at a time, and twisting his hand in the ex-burglar's neck-cloth
+    bore him backwards.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I've got one," he shouted.  "Come up and hold him while I look round."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The butcher was beside him in a moment; Brother Burge struggling wildly,
+    called loudly upon the name of Brother Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "That's all right, constable," said the latter, "that's a friend of
+    mine."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Friend o' yours, sir?" said the disappointed officer, still holding him.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller nodded.  "Mr. Samuel Burge the Converted Burglar," he said
+    mechanically.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Conver&mdash;&mdash;" gasped the astonished constable.  "Converted burglar?
+    Here!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He is a preacher now," added Mr. Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Preacher?" retorted the constable.  "Why it's as plain as a pikestaff.
+    Confederates: his part was to go down and let 'em in."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge raised a piteous outcry.  "I hope you may be forgiven for them
+    words," he cried piously.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What time did you go up to bed?" pursued the constable.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "About half-past eleven," replied Mr. Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The other grunted with satisfaction.  "And he's fully dressed, with his
+    boots off," he remarked.  "Did you hear him go out of his room at all?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He did go out," said the jeweller truth-fully, "but&mdash;&mdash;"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought so," said the constable, turning to his prisoner with
+    affectionate solicitude.  "Now you come along o' me.  Come quietly,
+    because it'll be the best for you in the end."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "You won't get your skull split open then," added the butcher, toying
+    with his cleaver.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller hesitated.  He had no desire to be left alone with Mr. Burge
+    again; and a sense of humour, which many years' association with the
+    Primitive Apostles had not quite eradicated, strove for hearing.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Think of the sermon it'll make," he said encouragingly to the frantic
+    Mr. Burge, "think of the congregation!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Burge replied in language which he had not used in public since
+    he had joined the Apostles.  The butcher and another man stood guard over
+    him while the constable searched the premises and made all secure again.
+    Then with a final appeal to Mr. Higgs who was keeping in the background,
+    he was pitched to the police-station by the energetic constable and five
+    zealous assistants.
+</p>
+<p>
+    A diffidence, natural in the circumstances, prevented him from narrating
+    the story of his temptation to the magistrates next morning, and Mr.
+    Higgs was equally reticent.  He was put back while the police
+    communicated with London, and in the meantime Brother Clark and a band
+    of Apostles flanked down to his support.
+</p>
+<p>
+    On his second appearance before the magistrates he was confronted with
+    his past; and his past to the great astonishment of the Brethren being
+    free from all blemish with the solitary exception of fourteen days for
+    stealing milk-cans, he was discharged with a caution.  The disillusioned
+    Primitive Apostles also gave him his freedom.
+</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Temptation of Samuel Burge, by W.W. Jacobs
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+Title: The Temptation of Samuel Burge
+       Captains All, Book 8.
+
+Author: W.W. Jacobs
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11188]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE ***
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+CAPTAINS ALL
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+By W.W. Jacobs
+
+
+
+THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE
+
+[Illustration: "The Temptation of Samuel Burge."]
+
+Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing
+hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before.  It was
+a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the
+jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what
+etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an
+expected guest.
+
+"He must be coming by the last train after all, sir," said the
+housekeeper entering the room and glancing at the clock.  "I suppose
+these London gentlemen keep such late hours they don't understand us
+country folk wanting to get to bed in decent time.  You must be wanting
+your supper, sir."
+
+Mr. Higgs sighed.  "I shall be glad of my supper," he said slowly, "but I
+dare say our friend is hungrier still.  Travelling is hungry work."
+
+"Perhaps he is thinking over his words for the seventh day," said the
+housekeeper solemnly.  "Forgetting hunger and thirst and all our poor
+earthly feelings in the blessedness of his work."
+
+"Perhaps so," assented the other, whose own earthly feelings were
+particularly strong just at that moment.
+
+"Brother Simpson used to forget all about meal-times when he stayed
+here," said the housekeeper, clasping her hands.  "He used to sit by the
+window with his eyes half-closed and shake his head at the smell from the
+kitchen and call it flesh-pots of Egypt.  He said that if it wasn't for
+keeping up his strength for the work, luscious bread and fair water was
+all he wanted.  I expect Brother Burge will be a similar sort of man."
+
+"Brother Clark wrote and told me that he only lives for the work," said
+the jeweller, with another glance at the clock.  "The chapel at
+Clerkenwell is crowded to hear him.  It's a blessed favour and privilege
+to have such a selected instrument staying in the house.  I'm curious to
+see him; from what Brother Clark said I rather fancy that he was a little
+bit wild in his younger days."
+
+"Hallelujah!" exclaimed the housekeeper with fervour.  "I mean to think
+as he's seen the error of his ways," she added sharply, as her master
+looked up.
+
+"There he is," said the latter, as the bell rang.
+
+The housekeeper went to the side-door, and drawing back the bolt admitted
+the gentleman whose preaching had done so much for the small but select
+sect known as the Seventh Day Primitive Apostles.  She came back into the
+room followed by a tall stout man, whose upper lip and short stubby beard
+streaked with grey seemed a poor match for the beady eyes which lurked
+behind a pair of clumsy spectacles.
+
+"Brother Samuel Burge?" inquired the jeweller, rising.
+
+The visitor nodded, and regarding him with a smile charged with fraternal
+love, took his hand in a huge grip and shook it fervently.
+
+"I am glad to see you, Brother Higgs," he said, regarding him fondly.
+"Oh, 'ow my eyes have yearned to be set upon you!  Oh, 'ow my ears 'ave
+longed to hearken unto the words of your voice!"
+
+He breathed thickly, and taking a seat sat with his hands upon his knees,
+looking at a fine piece of cold beef which the housekeeper had just
+placed upon the table.
+
+"Is Brother Clark well?" inquired the jeweller, placing a chair for him
+at the table and taking up his carving-knife.
+
+"Dear Brother Clark is in excellent 'ealth, I thank you," said the other,
+taking the proffered chair.  "Oh! what a man he is; what a instrument for
+good.  Always stretching out them blessed hands of 'is to make one of the
+fallen a Seventh Day Primitive."
+
+"And success attends his efforts?" said the jeweller.
+
+"Success, Brother!" repeated Mr. Burge, eating rapidly and gesticulating
+with his knife.  "Success ain't no name for it.  Why, since this day last
+week he has saved three pick-pockets, two Salvationists, one bigamist and
+a Roman Catholic."
+
+Brother Higgs murmured his admiration.  "You are also a power for good,"
+he said wistfully.  "Brother Clark tells me in his letter that your
+exhortations have been abundantly blessed."
+
+Mr. Burge shook his head.  "A lot of it falls by the wayside," he said
+modestly, "but some of it is an eye-opener to them as don't entirely shut
+their ears.  Only the day before yesterday I 'ad two jemmies and a dark
+lantern sent me with a letter saying as 'ow the owner had no further use
+for 'em."
+
+The jeweller's eyes glistened with admiration not quite untinged with
+envy.  "Have you expounded the Word for long?" he inquired.
+
+"Six months," replied the other.  "It come to me quite natural--I was on
+the penitent bench on the Saturday, and the Wednesday afterwards I
+preached as good a sermon as ever I've preached in my life.  Brother
+Clark said it took 'is breath away."
+
+"And he's a judge too," said the admiring jeweller.
+
+"Now," continued Brother Burge, helping himself plentifully to pickled
+walnuts.  "Now there ain't standing room in our Bethel when I'm
+expounding.  People come to hear me from all parts--old and young--rich
+and poor--and the Apostles that don't come early 'ave to stand outside
+and catch the crumbs I throw 'em through the winders."
+
+"It is enough," sighed Brother Higgs, whose own audience was frequently
+content to be on the wrong side of the window, "it is enough to make a
+man vain."
+
+"I struggle against it, Brother," said Mr. Burge, passing his cup up for
+some more tea.  "I fight against it hard, but once the Evil One was
+almost too much for me; and in spite of myself, and knowing besides that
+it was a plot of 'is, I nearly felt uplifted."
+
+Brother Higgs, passing him some more beef, pressed for details.
+
+"He sent me two policemen," replied the other, scowling darkly at the
+meanness of the trick.  "One I might 'ave stood, but two come to being
+pretty near too much for me.  They sat under me while I gave 'em the Word
+'ot and strong, and the feeling I had standing up there and telling
+policemen what they ought to do I shall never forget."
+
+"But why should policemen make you proud?" asked his puzzled listener.
+
+Mr. Burge looked puzzled in his turn.  "Why, hasn't Brother Clark told
+you about me?" he inquired.
+
+Mr. Higgs shook his head.  "He sort of--suggested that--that you had been
+a little bit wild before you came to us," he murmured apologetically.
+
+"A--little--bit--wild?" repeated Brother Burge, in horrified accents.
+"ME? a little bit wild?"
+
+"No doubt he exaggerated a little," said the jeweller hurriedly.  "Being
+such a good man himself, no doubt things would seem wild to him that
+wouldn't to us--to me, I mean."
+
+"A little bit wild," said his visitor again.  "Sam Burge, the Converted
+Burglar, a little bit wild.  Well, well!"
+
+"Converted what?" shouted the jeweller, half-rising from his chair.
+
+"Burglar," said the other shortly.  "Why, I should think I know more
+about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near
+killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a
+footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've been a
+little bit wild.  I wonder what he would 'ave?"
+
+"But you--you've quite reformed now?" said the jeweller, resuming his
+seat and making a great effort to hide his consternation.
+
+"I 'ope so," said Mr. Burge, with alarming humility; "but it's an
+uncertain world, and far be it from me to boast.  That's why I've come
+here."
+
+Mr. Higgs, only half-comprehending, sat back gasping.
+
+"If I can stand this," pursued Brother Burge, gesticulating wildly in the
+direction of the shop, "if I can stand being here with all these 'ere
+pretty little things to be 'ad for the trouble of picking of 'em up, I
+can stand anything.  Tempt me, I says to Brother Clark.  Put me in the
+way o' temptation, I says.  Let me see whether the Evil One or me is the
+strongest; let me 'ave a good old up and down with the Powers o'
+Darkness, and see who wins."
+
+Mr. Higgs, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, gazed at this
+new Michael in speechless consternation.
+
+"I think I see his face now," said Brother Burge, with tender enthusiasm.
+"All in a glow it was, and he patted me on the shoulder and says, 'I'll
+send you on a week's mission to Duncombe,' he says, and 'you shall stop
+with Brother Higgs who 'as a shop full o' cunning wrought vanities in
+silver and gold.'"
+
+"But suppose," said the jeweller, finding his voice by a great effort,
+"suppose victory is not given unto you."
+
+"It won't make any difference," replied his visitor.  "Brother Clark
+promised that it shouldn't.  'If you fall, Brother,' he says, 'we'll help
+you up again.  When you are tired of sin come back to us--there's always
+a welcome.'"
+
+"But--" began the dismayed jeweller.
+
+"We can only do our best," said Brother Burge, "the rest we must leave.
+I 'ave girded my loins for the fray, and taken much spiritual sustenance
+on the way down from this little hymn-book."
+
+Mr. Higgs paid no heed.  He sat marvelling over the fatuousness of
+Brother Clark and trying to think of ways and means out of the dilemma
+into which that gentleman's perverted enthusiasm had placed him.  He
+wondered whether it would be possible to induce Brother Burge to sleep
+elsewhere by offering to bear his hotel expenses, and at last, after some
+hesitation, broached the subject.
+
+"What!" exclaimed the other, pushing his plate from him and regarding him
+with great severity.  "Go and sleep at a hotel?  After Brother Clark has
+been and took all this trouble?  Why, I wouldn't think of doing such a
+thing."
+
+"Brother Clark has no right to expose you to such a trial," said Mr.
+Higgs with great warmth.
+
+"I wonder what he'd say if he 'eard you," remarked Mr. Burge sternly.
+"After his going and making all these arrangements, for you to try and go
+and upset 'em.  To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to
+go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a
+Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal."
+
+"I should sleep far more comfortably if I knew that you were not
+undergoing this tremendous strain," said the unhappy Mr. Higgs, "and
+besides that, if you did give way, it would be a serious business for me
+--that's what I want you to look at.  I am afraid that if--if unhappily
+you did fall, I couldn't prevent you."
+
+"I'm sure you couldn't," said the other cordially.  "That's the beauty of
+it; that's when the Evil One's whispers get louder and louder.  Why, I
+could choke you between my finger and thumb.  If unfortunately my fallen
+nature should be too strong for me, don't interfere whatever you do.  I
+mightn't be myself."
+
+Mr. Higgs rose and faced him gasping.
+
+"Not even--call for--the police--I suppose," he jerked out.
+
+"That would be interfering," said Brother Burge coldly.
+
+The jeweller tried to think.  It was past eleven.  The housekeeper had
+gone to spend the night with an ailing sister, and a furtive glance at
+Brother Burge's small shifty eyes and fat unwholesome face was sufficient
+to deter him from leaving him alone with his property, while he went to
+ask the police to give an eye to his house for the night.  Besides, it
+was more than probable that Mr. Burge would decline to allow such a
+proceeding.  With a growing sense of his peril he resolved to try
+flattery.
+
+"It was a great thing for the Brethren to secure a man like you," he
+said.
+
+"I never thought they'd ha' done it," said Mr. Burge frankly.  "I've 'ad
+all sorts trying to convert me; crying over me and praying over me.  I
+remember the first dear good man that called me a lorst lamb.  He didn't
+say anything else for a month."
+
+"So upset," hazarded the jeweller.
+
+"I broke his jor, pore feller," said Brother Burge, a sad but withal
+indulgent smile lighting up his face at the vagaries of his former
+career.  "What time do you go to bed, Brother?"
+
+"Any time," said the other reluctantly.  "I suppose you are tired with
+your journey?"
+
+Mr. Burge assented, and rising from his chair yawned loudly and stretched
+himself.  In the small room with his huge arms raised he looked colossal.
+
+"I suppose," said the jeweller, still seeking to re-assure himself, "I
+suppose dear Brother Clark felt pretty certain of you, else he wouldn't
+have sent you here?"
+
+"Brother Clark said 'What is a jeweller's shop compared with a 'uman
+soul, a priceless 'uman soul?'" replied Mr. Burge.  "What is a few
+gew-gaws to decorate them that perish, and make them vain, when you come
+to consider the opportunity of such a trial, and the good it'll do and
+the draw it'll be--if I do win--and testify to the congregation to that
+effect?  Why, there's sermons for a lifetime in it."
+
+"So there is," said the jeweller, trying to look cheerful.  "You've got a
+good face, Brother Burge, and you'll do a lot of good by your preaching.
+There is honesty written in every feature."
+
+Mr. Burge turned and surveyed himself in the small pier-glass.  "Yes," he
+said, somewhat discontentedly, "I don't look enough like a burglar to
+suit some of 'em."
+
+"Some people are hard to please," said the other warmly.
+
+Mr. Burge started and eyed him thoughtfully, and then as Mr. Higgs after
+some hesitation walked into the shop to turn the gas out, stood in the
+doorway watching him.  A smothered sigh as he glanced round the shop bore
+witness to the state of his feelings.
+
+The jeweller hesitated again in the parlour, and then handing Brother
+Burge his candle turned out the gas, and led the way slowly upstairs to
+the room which had been prepared for the honoured visitor.  He shook
+hands at the door and bade him an effusive good-night, his voice
+trembling despite himself as he expressed a hope that Mr. Burge would
+sleep well.  He added casually that he himself was a very light sleeper.
+
+To-night sleep of any kind was impossible.  He had given up the front
+room to his guest, and his own window looked out on an over-grown garden.
+He sat trying to read, with his ears alert for the slightest sound.
+Brother Burge seemed to be a long time undressing.  For half an hour
+after he had retired he could hear him moving restlessly about his room.
+
+Twelve o'clock struck from the tower of the parish church, and was
+followed almost directly by the tall clock standing in the hall
+down-stairs.  Scarcely had the sounds died away than a low moaning from
+the next room caused the affrighted jeweller to start from his chair and
+place his ear against the wall.  Two or three hollow groans came through
+the plaster, followed by ejaculations which showed clearly that Brother
+Burge was at that moment engaged in a terrified combat with the Powers
+of Darkness to decide whether he should, or should not, rifle his host's
+shop.  His hands clenched and his ear pressed close to the wall, the
+jeweller listened to a monologue which increased in interest with every
+word.
+
+"I tell you I won't," said the voice in the next room with a groan, "I
+won't.  Get thee behind me--Get thee--No, and don't shove me over to the
+door; if you can't get behind me without doing that, stay where you are.
+Yes, I know it's a fortune as well as what you do; but it ain't mine."
+
+The listener caught his breath painfully.
+
+"Diamond rings," continued Brother Burge in a suffocating voice.  "Stop
+it, I tell you.  No, I won't just go and look at 'em."
+
+A series of groans which the jeweller noticed to his horror got weaker
+and weaker testified to the greatness of the temptation.  He heard
+Brother Burge rise, and then a succession of panting snarls seemed to
+indicate a fierce bodily encounter.
+
+"I don't--want to look at 'em," said Brother Burge in an exhausted voice.
+"What's--the good of--looking at 'em?  It's like you, you know diamonds
+are my weakness.  What does it matter if he is asleep?  What's my knife
+got to do with you?"
+
+Brother Higgs reeled back and a mist passed before his eyes.  He came to
+himself at the sound of a door opening, and impelled with a vague idea of
+defending his property, snatched up his candle and looked out on to the
+landing.
+
+The light fell on Brother Burge, fully dressed and holding his boots in
+his hand.  For a moment they gazed at each other in silence; then the
+jeweller found his voice.
+
+"I thought you were ill, Brother," he faltered.
+
+An ugly scowl lit up the other's features.  "Don't you tell me any of
+your lies," he said fiercely.  "You're watching me; that's what you're
+doing.  Spying on me."
+
+"I thought that you were being tempted," confessed the trembling Mr.
+Higgs.
+
+An expression of satisfaction which he strove to suppress appeared on Mr.
+Burge's face.
+
+"So I was," he said sternly.  "So I was; but that's my business.  I don't
+want your assistance; I can fight my own battles.  You go to bed--I'm
+going to tell the congregation I won the fight single-'anded."
+
+"So you have, Brother," said the other eagerly; "but it's doing me good
+to see it.  It's a lesson to me; a lesson to all of us the way you
+wrestled."
+
+"I thought you was asleep," growled Brother Burge, turning back to his
+room and speaking over his shoulder.  "You get back to bed; the fight
+ain't half over yet.  Get back to bed and keep quiet."
+
+The door closed behind him, and Mr. Higgs, still trembling, regained his
+room and looked in agony at the clock.  It was only half-past twelve and
+the sun did not rise until six.  He sat and shivered until a second
+instalment of groans in the next room brought him in desperation to his
+feet.
+
+Brother Burge was in the toils again, and the jeweller despite his fears
+could not help realizing what a sensation the story of his temptation
+would create.  Brother Burge was now going round and round his room like
+an animal in a cage, and sounds as of a soul wrought almost beyond
+endurance smote upon the listener's quivering ear.  Then there was a long
+silence more alarming even than the noise of the conflict.  Had Brother
+Burge won, and was he now sleeping the sleep of the righteous, or----
+Mr. Higgs shivered and put his other ear to the wall.  Then he heard his
+guest move stealthily across the floor; the boards creaked and the handle
+of the door turned.
+
+Mr. Higgs started, and with a sudden flash of courage born of anger and
+desperation seized a small brass poker from the fire-place, and taking
+the candle in his other hand went out on to the landing again.  Brother
+Burge was closing his door softly, and his face when he turned it upon
+the jeweller was terrible in its wrath.  His small eyes snapped with
+fury, and his huge hands opened and shut convulsively.
+
+"What, agin!" he said in a low growl.  "After all I told you!"
+
+Mr. Higgs backed slowly as he advanced.
+
+"No noise," said Mr. Burge in a dreadful whisper.  "One scream and I'll--
+What were you going to do with that poker?"
+
+He took a stealthy step forward.
+
+"I--I," began the jeweller.  His voice failed him.  "Burglars," he
+mouthed, "downstairs."
+
+"What?" said the other, pausing.
+
+Mr. Higgs threw truth to the winds. "I heard them in the shop," he said,
+recovering, "that's why I took up the poker.  Can't you hear them?"
+
+Mr. Burge listened for the fraction of a second.  "Nonsense," he said
+huskily.
+
+"I heard them talking," said the other recklessly.  "Let's go down and
+call the police."
+
+"Call 'em from the winder," said Brother Burge, backing with some haste,
+"they might 'ave pistols or something, and they're ugly customers when
+they're disturbed."
+
+He stood with strained face listening.
+
+"Here they come," whispered the jeweller with a sudden movement of alarm.
+
+Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and
+locked it.  The jeweller stood dumbfounded on the landing; then he heard
+the window go up and the voice of Brother Burge, much strengthened by the
+religious exercises of the past six months, bellowing lustily for the
+police.
+
+For a few seconds Mr. Higgs stood listening and wondering what
+explanation he should give.  Still thinking, he ran downstairs, and,
+throwing open the pantry window, unlocked the door leading into the shop
+and scattered a few of his cherished possessions about the floor.  By the
+time he had done this, people were already beating upon the street-door
+and exchanging hurried remarks with Mr. Burge at the window above.  The
+jeweller shot back the bolts, and half-a-dozen neighbours, headed by the
+butcher opposite, clad in his nightgown and armed with a cleaver, burst
+into the passage.  A constable came running up just as the pallid face of
+Brother Burge peered over the balusters.  The constable went upstairs
+three at a time, and twisting his hand in the ex-burglar's neck-cloth
+bore him backwards.
+
+"I've got one," he shouted.  "Come up and hold him while I look round."
+
+The butcher was beside him in a moment; Brother Burge struggling wildly,
+called loudly upon the name of Brother Higgs.
+
+"That's all right, constable," said the latter, "that's a friend of
+mine."
+
+"Friend o' yours, sir?" said the disappointed officer, still holding him.
+
+The jeweller nodded.  "Mr. Samuel Burge the Converted Burglar," he said
+mechanically.
+
+"Conver----" gasped the astonished constable.  "Converted burglar?
+Here!"
+
+"He is a preacher now," added Mr. Higgs.
+
+"Preacher?" retorted the constable.  "Why it's as plain as a pikestaff.
+Confederates: his part was to go down and let 'em in."
+
+Mr. Burge raised a piteous outcry.  "I hope you may be forgiven for them
+words," he cried piously.
+
+"What time did you go up to bed?" pursued the constable.
+
+"About half-past eleven," replied Mr. Higgs.
+
+The other grunted with satisfaction.  "And he's fully dressed, with his
+boots off," he remarked.  "Did you hear him go out of his room at all?"
+
+"He did go out," said the jeweller truth-fully, "but----"
+
+"I thought so," said the constable, turning to his prisoner with
+affectionate solicitude.  "Now you come along o' me.  Come quietly,
+because it'll be the best for you in the end."
+
+"You won't get your skull split open then," added the butcher, toying
+with his cleaver.
+
+The jeweller hesitated.  He had no desire to be left alone with Mr. Burge
+again; and a sense of humour, which many years' association with the
+Primitive Apostles had not quite eradicated, strove for hearing.
+
+"Think of the sermon it'll make," he said encouragingly to the frantic
+Mr. Burge, "think of the congregation!"
+
+Brother Burge replied in language which he had not used in public since
+he had joined the Apostles.  The butcher and another man stood guard over
+him while the constable searched the premises and made all secure again.
+Then with a final appeal to Mr. Higgs who was keeping in the background,
+he was pitched to the police-station by the energetic constable and five
+zealous assistants.
+
+A diffidence, natural in the circumstances, prevented him from narrating
+the story of his temptation to the magistrates next morning, and Mr.
+Higgs was equally reticent.  He was put back while the police
+communicated with London, and in the meantime Brother Clark and a band
+of Apostles flanked down to his support.
+
+On his second appearance before the magistrates he was confronted with
+his past; and his past to the great astonishment of the Brethren being
+free from all blemish with the solitary exception of fourteen days for
+stealing milk-cans, he was discharged with a caution.  The disillusioned
+Primitive Apostles also gave him his freedom.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Title: The Temptation of Samuel Burge
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+<h1>
+    CAPTAINS ALL
+</h1>
+<br />
+<h2>
+    By W.W. Jacobs
+</h2>
+<br /><br />
+
+<center>
+<h2>Book 8.</h2>
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+<h2>
+    THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE
+</h2>
+<a name="image-13"><!--IMG--></a>
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+<img src="013.jpg" height="406" width="389"
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+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing
+    hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before.  It was
+    a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the
+    jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what
+    etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an
+    expected guest.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He must be coming by the last train after all, sir," said the
+    housekeeper entering the room and glancing at the clock.  "I suppose
+    these London gentlemen keep such late hours they don't understand us
+    country folk wanting to get to bed in decent time.  You must be wanting
+    your supper, sir."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs sighed.  "I shall be glad of my supper," he said slowly, "but I
+    dare say our friend is hungrier still.  Travelling is hungry work."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Perhaps he is thinking over his words for the seventh day," said the
+    housekeeper solemnly.  "Forgetting hunger and thirst and all our poor
+    earthly feelings in the blessedness of his work."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Perhaps so," assented the other, whose own earthly feelings were
+    particularly strong just at that moment.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Simpson used to forget all about meal-times when he stayed
+    here," said the housekeeper, clasping her hands.  "He used to sit by the
+    window with his eyes half-closed and shake his head at the smell from the
+    kitchen and call it flesh-pots of Egypt.  He said that if it wasn't for
+    keeping up his strength for the work, luscious bread and fair water was
+    all he wanted.  I expect Brother Burge will be a similar sort of man."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Clark wrote and told me that he only lives for the work," said
+    the jeweller, with another glance at the clock.  "The chapel at
+    Clerkenwell is crowded to hear him.  It's a blessed favour and privilege
+    to have such a selected instrument staying in the house.  I'm curious to
+    see him; from what Brother Clark said I rather fancy that he was a little
+    bit wild in his younger days."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Hallelujah!" exclaimed the housekeeper with fervour.  "I mean to think
+    as he's seen the error of his ways," she added sharply, as her master
+    looked up.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "There he is," said the latter, as the bell rang.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The housekeeper went to the side-door, and drawing back the bolt admitted
+    the gentleman whose preaching had done so much for the small but select
+    sect known as the Seventh Day Primitive Apostles.  She came back into the
+    room followed by a tall stout man, whose upper lip and short stubby beard
+    streaked with grey seemed a poor match for the beady eyes which lurked
+    behind a pair of clumsy spectacles.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Samuel Burge?" inquired the jeweller, rising.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The visitor nodded, and regarding him with a smile charged with fraternal
+    love, took his hand in a huge grip and shook it fervently.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I am glad to see you, Brother Higgs," he said, regarding him fondly.
+    "Oh, 'ow my eyes have yearned to be set upon you!  Oh, 'ow my ears 'ave
+    longed to hearken unto the words of your voice!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    He breathed thickly, and taking a seat sat with his hands upon his knees,
+    looking at a fine piece of cold beef which the housekeeper had just
+    placed upon the table.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Is Brother Clark well?" inquired the jeweller, placing a chair for him
+    at the table and taking up his carving-knife.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Dear Brother Clark is in excellent 'ealth, I thank you," said the other,
+    taking the proffered chair.  "Oh! what a man he is; what a instrument for
+    good.  Always stretching out them blessed hands of 'is to make one of the
+    fallen a Seventh Day Primitive."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "And success attends his efforts?" said the jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Success, Brother!" repeated Mr. Burge, eating rapidly and gesticulating
+    with his knife.  "Success ain't no name for it.  Why, since this day last
+    week he has saved three pick-pockets, two Salvationists, one bigamist and
+    a Roman Catholic."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Higgs murmured his admiration.  "You are also a power for good,"
+    he said wistfully.  "Brother Clark tells me in his letter that your
+    exhortations have been abundantly blessed."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge shook his head.  "A lot of it falls by the wayside," he said
+    modestly, "but some of it is an eye-opener to them as don't entirely shut
+    their ears.  Only the day before yesterday I 'ad two jemmies and a dark
+    lantern sent me with a letter saying as 'ow the owner had no further use
+    for 'em."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller's eyes glistened with admiration not quite untinged with
+    envy.  "Have you expounded the Word for long?" he inquired.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Six months," replied the other.  "It come to me quite natural&mdash;I was on
+    the penitent bench on the Saturday, and the Wednesday afterwards I
+    preached as good a sermon as ever I've preached in my life.  Brother
+    Clark said it took 'is breath away."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "And he's a judge too," said the admiring jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Now," continued Brother Burge, helping himself plentifully to pickled
+    walnuts.  "Now there ain't standing room in our Bethel when I'm
+    expounding.  People come to hear me from all parts&mdash;old and young&mdash;rich
+    and poor&mdash;and the Apostles that don't come early 'ave to stand outside
+    and catch the crumbs I throw 'em through the winders."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "It is enough," sighed Brother Higgs, whose own audience was frequently
+    content to be on the wrong side of the window, "it is enough to make a
+    man vain."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I struggle against it, Brother," said Mr. Burge, passing his cup up for
+    some more tea.  "I fight against it hard, but once the Evil One was
+    almost too much for me; and in spite of myself, and knowing besides that
+    it was a plot of 'is, I nearly felt uplifted."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Higgs, passing him some more beef, pressed for details.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He sent me two policemen," replied the other, scowling darkly at the
+    meanness of the trick.  "One I might 'ave stood, but two come to being
+    pretty near too much for me.  They sat under me while I gave 'em the Word
+    'ot and strong, and the feeling I had standing up there and telling
+    policemen what they ought to do I shall never forget."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But why should policemen make you proud?" asked his puzzled listener.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge looked puzzled in his turn.  "Why, hasn't Brother Clark told
+    you about me?" he inquired.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs shook his head.  "He sort of&mdash;suggested that&mdash;that you had been
+    a little bit wild before you came to us," he murmured apologetically.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "A&mdash;little&mdash;bit&mdash;wild?" repeated Brother Burge, in horrified accents.
+    "ME? a little bit wild?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "No doubt he exaggerated a little," said the jeweller hurriedly.  "Being
+    such a good man himself, no doubt things would seem wild to him that
+    wouldn't to us&mdash;to me, I mean."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "A little bit wild," said his visitor again.  "Sam Burge, the Converted
+    Burglar, a little bit wild.  Well, well!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Converted what?" shouted the jeweller, half-rising from his chair.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Burglar," said the other shortly.  "Why, I should think I know more
+    about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near
+    killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a
+    footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've been a
+    little bit wild.  I wonder what he would 'ave?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But you&mdash;you've quite reformed now?" said the jeweller, resuming his
+    seat and making a great effort to hide his consternation.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I 'ope so," said Mr. Burge, with alarming humility; "but it's an
+    uncertain world, and far be it from me to boast.  That's why I've come
+    here."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs, only half-comprehending, sat back gasping.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "If I can stand this," pursued Brother Burge, gesticulating wildly in the
+    direction of the shop, "if I can stand being here with all these 'ere
+    pretty little things to be 'ad for the trouble of picking of 'em up, I
+    can stand anything.  Tempt me, I says to Brother Clark.  Put me in the
+    way o' temptation, I says.  Let me see whether the Evil One or me is the
+    strongest; let me 'ave a good old up and down with the Powers o'
+    Darkness, and see who wins."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, gazed at this
+    new Michael in speechless consternation.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I think I see his face now," said Brother Burge, with tender enthusiasm.
+    "All in a glow it was, and he patted me on the shoulder and says, 'I'll
+    send you on a week's mission to Duncombe,' he says, and 'you shall stop
+    with Brother Higgs who 'as a shop full o' cunning wrought vanities in
+    silver and gold.'"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But suppose," said the jeweller, finding his voice by a great effort,
+    "suppose victory is not given unto you."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "It won't make any difference," replied his visitor.  "Brother Clark
+    promised that it shouldn't.  'If you fall, Brother,' he says, 'we'll help
+    you up again.  When you are tired of sin come back to us&mdash;there's always
+    a welcome.'"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "But&mdash;" began the dismayed jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "We can only do our best," said Brother Burge, "the rest we must leave.
+    I 'ave girded my loins for the fray, and taken much spiritual sustenance
+    on the way down from this little hymn-book."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs paid no heed.  He sat marvelling over the fatuousness of
+    Brother Clark and trying to think of ways and means out of the dilemma
+    into which that gentleman's perverted enthusiasm had placed him.  He
+    wondered whether it would be possible to induce Brother Burge to sleep
+    elsewhere by offering to bear his hotel expenses, and at last, after some
+    hesitation, broached the subject.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What!" exclaimed the other, pushing his plate from him and regarding him
+    with great severity.  "Go and sleep at a hotel?  After Brother Clark has
+    been and took all this trouble?  Why, I wouldn't think of doing such a
+    thing."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Clark has no right to expose you to such a trial," said Mr.
+    Higgs with great warmth.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I wonder what he'd say if he 'eard you," remarked Mr. Burge sternly.
+    "After his going and making all these arrangements, for you to try and go
+    and upset 'em.  To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to
+    go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a
+    Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I should sleep far more comfortably if I knew that you were not
+    undergoing this tremendous strain," said the unhappy Mr. Higgs, "and
+    besides that, if you did give way, it would be a serious business for me
+    &mdash;that's what I want you to look at.  I am afraid that if&mdash;if unhappily
+    you did fall, I couldn't prevent you."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I'm sure you couldn't," said the other cordially.  "That's the beauty of
+    it; that's when the Evil One's whispers get louder and louder.  Why, I
+    could choke you between my finger and thumb.  If unfortunately my fallen
+    nature should be too strong for me, don't interfere whatever you do.  I
+    mightn't be myself."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs rose and faced him gasping.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Not even&mdash;call for&mdash;the police&mdash;I suppose," he jerked out.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "That would be interfering," said Brother Burge coldly.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller tried to think.  It was past eleven.  The housekeeper had
+    gone to spend the night with an ailing sister, and a furtive glance at
+    Brother Burge's small shifty eyes and fat unwholesome face was sufficient
+    to deter him from leaving him alone with his property, while he went to
+    ask the police to give an eye to his house for the night.  Besides, it
+    was more than probable that Mr. Burge would decline to allow such a
+    proceeding.  With a growing sense of his peril he resolved to try
+    flattery.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "It was a great thing for the Brethren to secure a man like you," he
+    said.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I never thought they'd ha' done it," said Mr. Burge frankly.  "I've 'ad
+    all sorts trying to convert me; crying over me and praying over me.  I
+    remember the first dear good man that called me a lorst lamb.  He didn't
+    say anything else for a month."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So upset," hazarded the jeweller.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I broke his jor, pore feller," said Brother Burge, a sad but withal
+    indulgent smile lighting up his face at the vagaries of his former
+    career.  "What time do you go to bed, Brother?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Any time," said the other reluctantly.  "I suppose you are tired with
+    your journey?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge assented, and rising from his chair yawned loudly and stretched
+    himself.  In the small room with his huge arms raised he looked colossal.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I suppose," said the jeweller, still seeking to re-assure himself, "I
+    suppose dear Brother Clark felt pretty certain of you, else he wouldn't
+    have sent you here?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Brother Clark said 'What is a jeweller's shop compared with a 'uman
+    soul, a priceless 'uman soul?'" replied Mr. Burge.  "What is a few
+    gew-gaws to decorate them that perish, and make them vain, when you come
+    to consider the opportunity of such a trial, and the good it'll do and
+    the draw it'll be&mdash;if I do win&mdash;and testify to the congregation to that
+    effect?  Why, there's sermons for a lifetime in it."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So there is," said the jeweller, trying to look cheerful.  "You've got a
+    good face, Brother Burge, and you'll do a lot of good by your preaching.
+    There is honesty written in every feature."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge turned and surveyed himself in the small pier-glass.  "Yes," he
+    said, somewhat discontentedly, "I don't look enough like a burglar to
+    suit some of 'em."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Some people are hard to please," said the other warmly.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge started and eyed him thoughtfully, and then as Mr. Higgs after
+    some hesitation walked into the shop to turn the gas out, stood in the
+    doorway watching him.  A smothered sigh as he glanced round the shop bore
+    witness to the state of his feelings.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller hesitated again in the parlour, and then handing Brother
+    Burge his candle turned out the gas, and led the way slowly upstairs to
+    the room which had been prepared for the honoured visitor.  He shook
+    hands at the door and bade him an effusive good-night, his voice
+    trembling despite himself as he expressed a hope that Mr. Burge would
+    sleep well.  He added casually that he himself was a very light sleeper.
+</p>
+<p>
+    To-night sleep of any kind was impossible.  He had given up the front
+    room to his guest, and his own window looked out on an over-grown garden.
+    He sat trying to read, with his ears alert for the slightest sound.
+    Brother Burge seemed to be a long time undressing.  For half an hour
+    after he had retired he could hear him moving restlessly about his room.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Twelve o'clock struck from the tower of the parish church, and was
+    followed almost directly by the tall clock standing in the hall
+    down-stairs.  Scarcely had the sounds died away than a low moaning from
+    the next room caused the affrighted jeweller to start from his chair and
+    place his ear against the wall.  Two or three hollow groans came through
+    the plaster, followed by ejaculations which showed clearly that Brother
+    Burge was at that moment engaged in a terrified combat with the Powers
+    of Darkness to decide whether he should, or should not, rifle his host's
+    shop.  His hands clenched and his ear pressed close to the wall, the
+    jeweller listened to a monologue which increased in interest with every
+    word.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I tell you I won't," said the voice in the next room with a groan, "I
+    won't.  Get thee behind me&mdash;Get thee&mdash;No, and don't shove me over to the
+    door; if you can't get behind me without doing that, stay where you are.
+    Yes, I know it's a fortune as well as what you do; but it ain't mine."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The listener caught his breath painfully.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Diamond rings," continued Brother Burge in a suffocating voice.  "Stop
+    it, I tell you.  No, I won't just go and look at 'em."
+</p>
+<p>
+    A series of groans which the jeweller noticed to his horror got weaker
+    and weaker testified to the greatness of the temptation.  He heard
+    Brother Burge rise, and then a succession of panting snarls seemed to
+    indicate a fierce bodily encounter.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I don't&mdash;want to look at 'em," said Brother Burge in an exhausted voice.
+    "What's&mdash;the good of&mdash;looking at 'em?  It's like you, you know diamonds
+    are my weakness.  What does it matter if he is asleep?  What's my knife
+    got to do with you?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Higgs reeled back and a mist passed before his eyes.  He came to
+    himself at the sound of a door opening, and impelled with a vague idea of
+    defending his property, snatched up his candle and looked out on to the
+    landing.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The light fell on Brother Burge, fully dressed and holding his boots in
+    his hand.  For a moment they gazed at each other in silence; then the
+    jeweller found his voice.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought you were ill, Brother," he faltered.
+</p>
+<p>
+    An ugly scowl lit up the other's features.  "Don't you tell me any of
+    your lies," he said fiercely.  "You're watching me; that's what you're
+    doing.  Spying on me."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought that you were being tempted," confessed the trembling Mr.
+    Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    An expression of satisfaction which he strove to suppress appeared on Mr.
+    Burge's face.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So I was," he said sternly.  "So I was; but that's my business.  I don't
+    want your assistance; I can fight my own battles.  You go to bed&mdash;I'm
+    going to tell the congregation I won the fight single-'anded."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "So you have, Brother," said the other eagerly; "but it's doing me good
+    to see it.  It's a lesson to me; a lesson to all of us the way you
+    wrestled."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought you was asleep," growled Brother Burge, turning back to his
+    room and speaking over his shoulder.  "You get back to bed; the fight
+    ain't half over yet.  Get back to bed and keep quiet."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The door closed behind him, and Mr. Higgs, still trembling, regained his
+    room and looked in agony at the clock.  It was only half-past twelve and
+    the sun did not rise until six.  He sat and shivered until a second
+    instalment of groans in the next room brought him in desperation to his
+    feet.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Burge was in the toils again, and the jeweller despite his fears
+    could not help realizing what a sensation the story of his temptation
+    would create.  Brother Burge was now going round and round his room like
+    an animal in a cage, and sounds as of a soul wrought almost beyond
+    endurance smote upon the listener's quivering ear.  Then there was a long
+    silence more alarming even than the noise of the conflict.  Had Brother
+    Burge won, and was he now sleeping the sleep of the righteous, or&mdash;&mdash;
+    Mr. Higgs shivered and put his other ear to the wall.  Then he heard his
+    guest move stealthily across the floor; the boards creaked and the handle
+    of the door turned.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs started, and with a sudden flash of courage born of anger and
+    desperation seized a small brass poker from the fire-place, and taking
+    the candle in his other hand went out on to the landing again.  Brother
+    Burge was closing his door softly, and his face when he turned it upon
+    the jeweller was terrible in its wrath.  His small eyes snapped with
+    fury, and his huge hands opened and shut convulsively.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What, agin!" he said in a low growl.  "After all I told you!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs backed slowly as he advanced.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "No noise," said Mr. Burge in a dreadful whisper.  "One scream and I'll&mdash;
+    What were you going to do with that poker?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    He took a stealthy step forward.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I&mdash;I," began the jeweller.  His voice failed him.  "Burglars," he
+    mouthed, "downstairs."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What?" said the other, pausing.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Higgs threw truth to the winds. "I heard them in the shop," he said,
+    recovering, "that's why I took up the poker.  Can't you hear them?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge listened for the fraction of a second.  "Nonsense," he said
+    huskily.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I heard them talking," said the other recklessly.  "Let's go down and
+    call the police."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Call 'em from the winder," said Brother Burge, backing with some haste,
+    "they might 'ave pistols or something, and they're ugly customers when
+    they're disturbed."
+</p>
+<p>
+    He stood with strained face listening.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Here they come," whispered the jeweller with a sudden movement of alarm.
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and
+    locked it.  The jeweller stood dumbfounded on the landing; then he heard
+    the window go up and the voice of Brother Burge, much strengthened by the
+    religious exercises of the past six months, bellowing lustily for the
+    police.
+</p>
+<p>
+    For a few seconds Mr. Higgs stood listening and wondering what
+    explanation he should give.  Still thinking, he ran downstairs, and,
+    throwing open the pantry window, unlocked the door leading into the shop
+    and scattered a few of his cherished possessions about the floor.  By the
+    time he had done this, people were already beating upon the street-door
+    and exchanging hurried remarks with Mr. Burge at the window above.  The
+    jeweller shot back the bolts, and half-a-dozen neighbours, headed by the
+    butcher opposite, clad in his nightgown and armed with a cleaver, burst
+    into the passage.  A constable came running up just as the pallid face of
+    Brother Burge peered over the balusters.  The constable went upstairs
+    three at a time, and twisting his hand in the ex-burglar's neck-cloth
+    bore him backwards.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I've got one," he shouted.  "Come up and hold him while I look round."
+</p>
+<p>
+    The butcher was beside him in a moment; Brother Burge struggling wildly,
+    called loudly upon the name of Brother Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "That's all right, constable," said the latter, "that's a friend of
+    mine."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Friend o' yours, sir?" said the disappointed officer, still holding him.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller nodded.  "Mr. Samuel Burge the Converted Burglar," he said
+    mechanically.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Conver&mdash;&mdash;" gasped the astonished constable.  "Converted burglar?
+    Here!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He is a preacher now," added Mr. Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Preacher?" retorted the constable.  "Why it's as plain as a pikestaff.
+    Confederates: his part was to go down and let 'em in."
+</p>
+<p>
+    Mr. Burge raised a piteous outcry.  "I hope you may be forgiven for them
+    words," he cried piously.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "What time did you go up to bed?" pursued the constable.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "About half-past eleven," replied Mr. Higgs.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The other grunted with satisfaction.  "And he's fully dressed, with his
+    boots off," he remarked.  "Did you hear him go out of his room at all?"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "He did go out," said the jeweller truth-fully, "but&mdash;&mdash;"
+</p>
+<p>
+    "I thought so," said the constable, turning to his prisoner with
+    affectionate solicitude.  "Now you come along o' me.  Come quietly,
+    because it'll be the best for you in the end."
+</p>
+<p>
+    "You won't get your skull split open then," added the butcher, toying
+    with his cleaver.
+</p>
+<p>
+    The jeweller hesitated.  He had no desire to be left alone with Mr. Burge
+    again; and a sense of humour, which many years' association with the
+    Primitive Apostles had not quite eradicated, strove for hearing.
+</p>
+<p>
+    "Think of the sermon it'll make," he said encouragingly to the frantic
+    Mr. Burge, "think of the congregation!"
+</p>
+<p>
+    Brother Burge replied in language which he had not used in public since
+    he had joined the Apostles.  The butcher and another man stood guard over
+    him while the constable searched the premises and made all secure again.
+    Then with a final appeal to Mr. Higgs who was keeping in the background,
+    he was pitched to the police-station by the energetic constable and five
+    zealous assistants.
+</p>
+<p>
+    A diffidence, natural in the circumstances, prevented him from narrating
+    the story of his temptation to the magistrates next morning, and Mr.
+    Higgs was equally reticent.  He was put back while the police
+    communicated with London, and in the meantime Brother Clark and a band
+    of Apostles flanked down to his support.
+</p>
+<p>
+    On his second appearance before the magistrates he was confronted with
+    his past; and his past to the great astonishment of the Brethren being
+    free from all blemish with the solitary exception of fourteen days for
+    stealing milk-cans, he was discharged with a caution.  The disillusioned
+    Primitive Apostles also gave him his freedom.
+</p>
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Temptation of Samuel Burge, by W.W. Jacobs
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
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+
+Title: The Temptation of Samuel Burge
+       Captains All, Book 8.
+
+Author: W.W. Jacobs
+
+Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11188]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: US-ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE ***
+
+
+
+
+Produced by David Widger
+
+
+
+
+CAPTAINS ALL
+
+By W.W. Jacobs
+
+
+
+THE TEMPTATION OF SAMUEL BURGE
+
+[Illustration: "The Temptation of Samuel Burge."]
+
+Mr. Higgs, jeweller, sat in the small parlour behind his shop, gazing
+hungrily at a supper-table which had been laid some time before.  It was
+a quarter to ten by the small town clock on the mantelpiece, and the
+jeweller rubbing his hands over the fire tried in vain to remember what
+etiquette had to say about starting a meal before the arrival of an
+expected guest.
+
+"He must be coming by the last train after all, sir," said the
+housekeeper entering the room and glancing at the clock.  "I suppose
+these London gentlemen keep such late hours they don't understand us
+country folk wanting to get to bed in decent time.  You must be wanting
+your supper, sir."
+
+Mr. Higgs sighed.  "I shall be glad of my supper," he said slowly, "but I
+dare say our friend is hungrier still.  Travelling is hungry work."
+
+"Perhaps he is thinking over his words for the seventh day," said the
+housekeeper solemnly.  "Forgetting hunger and thirst and all our poor
+earthly feelings in the blessedness of his work."
+
+"Perhaps so," assented the other, whose own earthly feelings were
+particularly strong just at that moment.
+
+"Brother Simpson used to forget all about meal-times when he stayed
+here," said the housekeeper, clasping her hands.  "He used to sit by the
+window with his eyes half-closed and shake his head at the smell from the
+kitchen and call it flesh-pots of Egypt.  He said that if it wasn't for
+keeping up his strength for the work, luscious bread and fair water was
+all he wanted.  I expect Brother Burge will be a similar sort of man."
+
+"Brother Clark wrote and told me that he only lives for the work," said
+the jeweller, with another glance at the clock.  "The chapel at
+Clerkenwell is crowded to hear him.  It's a blessed favour and privilege
+to have such a selected instrument staying in the house.  I'm curious to
+see him; from what Brother Clark said I rather fancy that he was a little
+bit wild in his younger days."
+
+"Hallelujah!" exclaimed the housekeeper with fervour.  "I mean to think
+as he's seen the error of his ways," she added sharply, as her master
+looked up.
+
+"There he is," said the latter, as the bell rang.
+
+The housekeeper went to the side-door, and drawing back the bolt admitted
+the gentleman whose preaching had done so much for the small but select
+sect known as the Seventh Day Primitive Apostles.  She came back into the
+room followed by a tall stout man, whose upper lip and short stubby beard
+streaked with grey seemed a poor match for the beady eyes which lurked
+behind a pair of clumsy spectacles.
+
+"Brother Samuel Burge?" inquired the jeweller, rising.
+
+The visitor nodded, and regarding him with a smile charged with fraternal
+love, took his hand in a huge grip and shook it fervently.
+
+"I am glad to see you, Brother Higgs," he said, regarding him fondly.
+"Oh, 'ow my eyes have yearned to be set upon you!  Oh, 'ow my ears 'ave
+longed to hearken unto the words of your voice!"
+
+He breathed thickly, and taking a seat sat with his hands upon his knees,
+looking at a fine piece of cold beef which the housekeeper had just
+placed upon the table.
+
+"Is Brother Clark well?" inquired the jeweller, placing a chair for him
+at the table and taking up his carving-knife.
+
+"Dear Brother Clark is in excellent 'ealth, I thank you," said the other,
+taking the proffered chair.  "Oh! what a man he is; what a instrument for
+good.  Always stretching out them blessed hands of 'is to make one of the
+fallen a Seventh Day Primitive."
+
+"And success attends his efforts?" said the jeweller.
+
+"Success, Brother!" repeated Mr. Burge, eating rapidly and gesticulating
+with his knife.  "Success ain't no name for it.  Why, since this day last
+week he has saved three pick-pockets, two Salvationists, one bigamist and
+a Roman Catholic."
+
+Brother Higgs murmured his admiration.  "You are also a power for good,"
+he said wistfully.  "Brother Clark tells me in his letter that your
+exhortations have been abundantly blessed."
+
+Mr. Burge shook his head.  "A lot of it falls by the wayside," he said
+modestly, "but some of it is an eye-opener to them as don't entirely shut
+their ears.  Only the day before yesterday I 'ad two jemmies and a dark
+lantern sent me with a letter saying as 'ow the owner had no further use
+for 'em."
+
+The jeweller's eyes glistened with admiration not quite untinged with
+envy.  "Have you expounded the Word for long?" he inquired.
+
+"Six months," replied the other.  "It come to me quite natural--I was on
+the penitent bench on the Saturday, and the Wednesday afterwards I
+preached as good a sermon as ever I've preached in my life.  Brother
+Clark said it took 'is breath away."
+
+"And he's a judge too," said the admiring jeweller.
+
+"Now," continued Brother Burge, helping himself plentifully to pickled
+walnuts.  "Now there ain't standing room in our Bethel when I'm
+expounding.  People come to hear me from all parts--old and young--rich
+and poor--and the Apostles that don't come early 'ave to stand outside
+and catch the crumbs I throw 'em through the winders."
+
+"It is enough," sighed Brother Higgs, whose own audience was frequently
+content to be on the wrong side of the window, "it is enough to make a
+man vain."
+
+"I struggle against it, Brother," said Mr. Burge, passing his cup up for
+some more tea.  "I fight against it hard, but once the Evil One was
+almost too much for me; and in spite of myself, and knowing besides that
+it was a plot of 'is, I nearly felt uplifted."
+
+Brother Higgs, passing him some more beef, pressed for details.
+
+"He sent me two policemen," replied the other, scowling darkly at the
+meanness of the trick.  "One I might 'ave stood, but two come to being
+pretty near too much for me.  They sat under me while I gave 'em the Word
+'ot and strong, and the feeling I had standing up there and telling
+policemen what they ought to do I shall never forget."
+
+"But why should policemen make you proud?" asked his puzzled listener.
+
+Mr. Burge looked puzzled in his turn.  "Why, hasn't Brother Clark told
+you about me?" he inquired.
+
+Mr. Higgs shook his head.  "He sort of--suggested that--that you had been
+a little bit wild before you came to us," he murmured apologetically.
+
+"A--little--bit--wild?" repeated Brother Burge, in horrified accents.
+"ME? a little bit wild?"
+
+"No doubt he exaggerated a little," said the jeweller hurriedly.  "Being
+such a good man himself, no doubt things would seem wild to him that
+wouldn't to us--to me, I mean."
+
+"A little bit wild," said his visitor again.  "Sam Burge, the Converted
+Burglar, a little bit wild.  Well, well!"
+
+"Converted what?" shouted the jeweller, half-rising from his chair.
+
+"Burglar," said the other shortly.  "Why, I should think I know more
+about the inside o' gaols than anybody in England; I've pretty near
+killed three policemen, besides breaking a gent's leg and throwing a
+footman out of window, and then Brother Clark goes and says I've been a
+little bit wild.  I wonder what he would 'ave?"
+
+"But you--you've quite reformed now?" said the jeweller, resuming his
+seat and making a great effort to hide his consternation.
+
+"I 'ope so," said Mr. Burge, with alarming humility; "but it's an
+uncertain world, and far be it from me to boast.  That's why I've come
+here."
+
+Mr. Higgs, only half-comprehending, sat back gasping.
+
+"If I can stand this," pursued Brother Burge, gesticulating wildly in the
+direction of the shop, "if I can stand being here with all these 'ere
+pretty little things to be 'ad for the trouble of picking of 'em up, I
+can stand anything.  Tempt me, I says to Brother Clark.  Put me in the
+way o' temptation, I says.  Let me see whether the Evil One or me is the
+strongest; let me 'ave a good old up and down with the Powers o'
+Darkness, and see who wins."
+
+Mr. Higgs, gripping the edge of the table with both hands, gazed at this
+new Michael in speechless consternation.
+
+"I think I see his face now," said Brother Burge, with tender enthusiasm.
+"All in a glow it was, and he patted me on the shoulder and says, 'I'll
+send you on a week's mission to Duncombe,' he says, and 'you shall stop
+with Brother Higgs who 'as a shop full o' cunning wrought vanities in
+silver and gold.'"
+
+"But suppose," said the jeweller, finding his voice by a great effort,
+"suppose victory is not given unto you."
+
+"It won't make any difference," replied his visitor.  "Brother Clark
+promised that it shouldn't.  'If you fall, Brother,' he says, 'we'll help
+you up again.  When you are tired of sin come back to us--there's always
+a welcome.'"
+
+"But--" began the dismayed jeweller.
+
+"We can only do our best," said Brother Burge, "the rest we must leave.
+I 'ave girded my loins for the fray, and taken much spiritual sustenance
+on the way down from this little hymn-book."
+
+Mr. Higgs paid no heed.  He sat marvelling over the fatuousness of
+Brother Clark and trying to think of ways and means out of the dilemma
+into which that gentleman's perverted enthusiasm had placed him.  He
+wondered whether it would be possible to induce Brother Burge to sleep
+elsewhere by offering to bear his hotel expenses, and at last, after some
+hesitation, broached the subject.
+
+"What!" exclaimed the other, pushing his plate from him and regarding him
+with great severity.  "Go and sleep at a hotel?  After Brother Clark has
+been and took all this trouble?  Why, I wouldn't think of doing such a
+thing."
+
+"Brother Clark has no right to expose you to such a trial," said Mr.
+Higgs with great warmth.
+
+"I wonder what he'd say if he 'eard you," remarked Mr. Burge sternly.
+"After his going and making all these arrangements, for you to try and go
+and upset 'em.  To ask me to shun the fight like a coward; to ask me to
+go and hide in the rear-ranks in a hotel with everything locked up, or a
+Coffer Pallis with nothing to steal."
+
+"I should sleep far more comfortably if I knew that you were not
+undergoing this tremendous strain," said the unhappy Mr. Higgs, "and
+besides that, if you did give way, it would be a serious business for me
+--that's what I want you to look at.  I am afraid that if--if unhappily
+you did fall, I couldn't prevent you."
+
+"I'm sure you couldn't," said the other cordially.  "That's the beauty of
+it; that's when the Evil One's whispers get louder and louder.  Why, I
+could choke you between my finger and thumb.  If unfortunately my fallen
+nature should be too strong for me, don't interfere whatever you do.  I
+mightn't be myself."
+
+Mr. Higgs rose and faced him gasping.
+
+"Not even--call for--the police--I suppose," he jerked out.
+
+"That would be interfering," said Brother Burge coldly.
+
+The jeweller tried to think.  It was past eleven.  The housekeeper had
+gone to spend the night with an ailing sister, and a furtive glance at
+Brother Burge's small shifty eyes and fat unwholesome face was sufficient
+to deter him from leaving him alone with his property, while he went to
+ask the police to give an eye to his house for the night.  Besides, it
+was more than probable that Mr. Burge would decline to allow such a
+proceeding.  With a growing sense of his peril he resolved to try
+flattery.
+
+"It was a great thing for the Brethren to secure a man like you," he
+said.
+
+"I never thought they'd ha' done it," said Mr. Burge frankly.  "I've 'ad
+all sorts trying to convert me; crying over me and praying over me.  I
+remember the first dear good man that called me a lorst lamb.  He didn't
+say anything else for a month."
+
+"So upset," hazarded the jeweller.
+
+"I broke his jor, pore feller," said Brother Burge, a sad but withal
+indulgent smile lighting up his face at the vagaries of his former
+career.  "What time do you go to bed, Brother?"
+
+"Any time," said the other reluctantly.  "I suppose you are tired with
+your journey?"
+
+Mr. Burge assented, and rising from his chair yawned loudly and stretched
+himself.  In the small room with his huge arms raised he looked colossal.
+
+"I suppose," said the jeweller, still seeking to re-assure himself, "I
+suppose dear Brother Clark felt pretty certain of you, else he wouldn't
+have sent you here?"
+
+"Brother Clark said 'What is a jeweller's shop compared with a 'uman
+soul, a priceless 'uman soul?'" replied Mr. Burge.  "What is a few
+gew-gaws to decorate them that perish, and make them vain, when you come
+to consider the opportunity of such a trial, and the good it'll do and
+the draw it'll be--if I do win--and testify to the congregation to that
+effect?  Why, there's sermons for a lifetime in it."
+
+"So there is," said the jeweller, trying to look cheerful.  "You've got a
+good face, Brother Burge, and you'll do a lot of good by your preaching.
+There is honesty written in every feature."
+
+Mr. Burge turned and surveyed himself in the small pier-glass.  "Yes," he
+said, somewhat discontentedly, "I don't look enough like a burglar to
+suit some of 'em."
+
+"Some people are hard to please," said the other warmly.
+
+Mr. Burge started and eyed him thoughtfully, and then as Mr. Higgs after
+some hesitation walked into the shop to turn the gas out, stood in the
+doorway watching him.  A smothered sigh as he glanced round the shop bore
+witness to the state of his feelings.
+
+The jeweller hesitated again in the parlour, and then handing Brother
+Burge his candle turned out the gas, and led the way slowly upstairs to
+the room which had been prepared for the honoured visitor.  He shook
+hands at the door and bade him an effusive good-night, his voice
+trembling despite himself as he expressed a hope that Mr. Burge would
+sleep well.  He added casually that he himself was a very light sleeper.
+
+To-night sleep of any kind was impossible.  He had given up the front
+room to his guest, and his own window looked out on an over-grown garden.
+He sat trying to read, with his ears alert for the slightest sound.
+Brother Burge seemed to be a long time undressing.  For half an hour
+after he had retired he could hear him moving restlessly about his room.
+
+Twelve o'clock struck from the tower of the parish church, and was
+followed almost directly by the tall clock standing in the hall
+down-stairs.  Scarcely had the sounds died away than a low moaning from
+the next room caused the affrighted jeweller to start from his chair and
+place his ear against the wall.  Two or three hollow groans came through
+the plaster, followed by ejaculations which showed clearly that Brother
+Burge was at that moment engaged in a terrified combat with the Powers
+of Darkness to decide whether he should, or should not, rifle his host's
+shop.  His hands clenched and his ear pressed close to the wall, the
+jeweller listened to a monologue which increased in interest with every
+word.
+
+"I tell you I won't," said the voice in the next room with a groan, "I
+won't.  Get thee behind me--Get thee--No, and don't shove me over to the
+door; if you can't get behind me without doing that, stay where you are.
+Yes, I know it's a fortune as well as what you do; but it ain't mine."
+
+The listener caught his breath painfully.
+
+"Diamond rings," continued Brother Burge in a suffocating voice.  "Stop
+it, I tell you.  No, I won't just go and look at 'em."
+
+A series of groans which the jeweller noticed to his horror got weaker
+and weaker testified to the greatness of the temptation.  He heard
+Brother Burge rise, and then a succession of panting snarls seemed to
+indicate a fierce bodily encounter.
+
+"I don't--want to look at 'em," said Brother Burge in an exhausted voice.
+"What's--the good of--looking at 'em?  It's like you, you know diamonds
+are my weakness.  What does it matter if he is asleep?  What's my knife
+got to do with you?"
+
+Brother Higgs reeled back and a mist passed before his eyes.  He came to
+himself at the sound of a door opening, and impelled with a vague idea of
+defending his property, snatched up his candle and looked out on to the
+landing.
+
+The light fell on Brother Burge, fully dressed and holding his boots in
+his hand.  For a moment they gazed at each other in silence; then the
+jeweller found his voice.
+
+"I thought you were ill, Brother," he faltered.
+
+An ugly scowl lit up the other's features.  "Don't you tell me any of
+your lies," he said fiercely.  "You're watching me; that's what you're
+doing.  Spying on me."
+
+"I thought that you were being tempted," confessed the trembling Mr.
+Higgs.
+
+An expression of satisfaction which he strove to suppress appeared on Mr.
+Burge's face.
+
+"So I was," he said sternly.  "So I was; but that's my business.  I don't
+want your assistance; I can fight my own battles.  You go to bed--I'm
+going to tell the congregation I won the fight single-'anded."
+
+"So you have, Brother," said the other eagerly; "but it's doing me good
+to see it.  It's a lesson to me; a lesson to all of us the way you
+wrestled."
+
+"I thought you was asleep," growled Brother Burge, turning back to his
+room and speaking over his shoulder.  "You get back to bed; the fight
+ain't half over yet.  Get back to bed and keep quiet."
+
+The door closed behind him, and Mr. Higgs, still trembling, regained his
+room and looked in agony at the clock.  It was only half-past twelve and
+the sun did not rise until six.  He sat and shivered until a second
+instalment of groans in the next room brought him in desperation to his
+feet.
+
+Brother Burge was in the toils again, and the jeweller despite his fears
+could not help realizing what a sensation the story of his temptation
+would create.  Brother Burge was now going round and round his room like
+an animal in a cage, and sounds as of a soul wrought almost beyond
+endurance smote upon the listener's quivering ear.  Then there was a long
+silence more alarming even than the noise of the conflict.  Had Brother
+Burge won, and was he now sleeping the sleep of the righteous, or----
+Mr. Higgs shivered and put his other ear to the wall.  Then he heard his
+guest move stealthily across the floor; the boards creaked and the handle
+of the door turned.
+
+Mr. Higgs started, and with a sudden flash of courage born of anger and
+desperation seized a small brass poker from the fire-place, and taking
+the candle in his other hand went out on to the landing again.  Brother
+Burge was closing his door softly, and his face when he turned it upon
+the jeweller was terrible in its wrath.  His small eyes snapped with
+fury, and his huge hands opened and shut convulsively.
+
+"What, agin!" he said in a low growl.  "After all I told you!"
+
+Mr. Higgs backed slowly as he advanced.
+
+"No noise," said Mr. Burge in a dreadful whisper.  "One scream and I'll--
+What were you going to do with that poker?"
+
+He took a stealthy step forward.
+
+"I--I," began the jeweller.  His voice failed him.  "Burglars," he
+mouthed, "downstairs."
+
+"What?" said the other, pausing.
+
+Mr. Higgs threw truth to the winds. "I heard them in the shop," he said,
+recovering, "that's why I took up the poker.  Can't you hear them?"
+
+Mr. Burge listened for the fraction of a second.  "Nonsense," he said
+huskily.
+
+"I heard them talking," said the other recklessly.  "Let's go down and
+call the police."
+
+"Call 'em from the winder," said Brother Burge, backing with some haste,
+"they might 'ave pistols or something, and they're ugly customers when
+they're disturbed."
+
+He stood with strained face listening.
+
+"Here they come," whispered the jeweller with a sudden movement of alarm.
+
+Brother Burge turned, and bolting into his room clapped the door to and
+locked it.  The jeweller stood dumbfounded on the landing; then he heard
+the window go up and the voice of Brother Burge, much strengthened by the
+religious exercises of the past six months, bellowing lustily for the
+police.
+
+For a few seconds Mr. Higgs stood listening and wondering what
+explanation he should give.  Still thinking, he ran downstairs, and,
+throwing open the pantry window, unlocked the door leading into the shop
+and scattered a few of his cherished possessions about the floor.  By the
+time he had done this, people were already beating upon the street-door
+and exchanging hurried remarks with Mr. Burge at the window above.  The
+jeweller shot back the bolts, and half-a-dozen neighbours, headed by the
+butcher opposite, clad in his nightgown and armed with a cleaver, burst
+into the passage.  A constable came running up just as the pallid face of
+Brother Burge peered over the balusters.  The constable went upstairs
+three at a time, and twisting his hand in the ex-burglar's neck-cloth
+bore him backwards.
+
+"I've got one," he shouted.  "Come up and hold him while I look round."
+
+The butcher was beside him in a moment; Brother Burge struggling wildly,
+called loudly upon the name of Brother Higgs.
+
+"That's all right, constable," said the latter, "that's a friend of
+mine."
+
+"Friend o' yours, sir?" said the disappointed officer, still holding him.
+
+The jeweller nodded.  "Mr. Samuel Burge the Converted Burglar," he said
+mechanically.
+
+"Conver----" gasped the astonished constable.  "Converted burglar?
+Here!"
+
+"He is a preacher now," added Mr. Higgs.
+
+"Preacher?" retorted the constable.  "Why it's as plain as a pikestaff.
+Confederates: his part was to go down and let 'em in."
+
+Mr. Burge raised a piteous outcry.  "I hope you may be forgiven for them
+words," he cried piously.
+
+"What time did you go up to bed?" pursued the constable.
+
+"About half-past eleven," replied Mr. Higgs.
+
+The other grunted with satisfaction.  "And he's fully dressed, with his
+boots off," he remarked.  "Did you hear him go out of his room at all?"
+
+"He did go out," said the jeweller truth-fully, "but----"
+
+"I thought so," said the constable, turning to his prisoner with
+affectionate solicitude.  "Now you come along o' me.  Come quietly,
+because it'll be the best for you in the end."
+
+"You won't get your skull split open then," added the butcher, toying
+with his cleaver.
+
+The jeweller hesitated.  He had no desire to be left alone with Mr. Burge
+again; and a sense of humour, which many years' association with the
+Primitive Apostles had not quite eradicated, strove for hearing.
+
+"Think of the sermon it'll make," he said encouragingly to the frantic
+Mr. Burge, "think of the congregation!"
+
+Brother Burge replied in language which he had not used in public since
+he had joined the Apostles.  The butcher and another man stood guard over
+him while the constable searched the premises and made all secure again.
+Then with a final appeal to Mr. Higgs who was keeping in the background,
+he was pitched to the police-station by the energetic constable and five
+zealous assistants.
+
+A diffidence, natural in the circumstances, prevented him from narrating
+the story of his temptation to the magistrates next morning, and Mr.
+Higgs was equally reticent.  He was put back while the police
+communicated with London, and in the meantime Brother Clark and a band
+of Apostles flanked down to his support.
+
+On his second appearance before the magistrates he was confronted with
+his past; and his past to the great astonishment of the Brethren being
+free from all blemish with the solitary exception of fourteen days for
+stealing milk-cans, he was discharged with a caution.  The disillusioned
+Primitive Apostles also gave him his freedom.
+
+
+
+
+
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