Chapter
43: Fagin got the news
that the Artful Dodger, Jack Dawkins, had been arrested and taken to Newgate. Noah Claypole, renamed
by Fagin as Morris Bolter, was sent on his first assignment to find out what was going on with the boy
there. The evidence was strong against him, and though he tried to fight it, the Dodger would
be locked up for life for his crimes.
Chapter
44: Fagin was visiting
Sikes when the clock struck eleven on Sunday evening. Nancy put on her bonnet and prepared to
go out, but Sikes stopped her. They began fighting, and finally Sikes won and she did not go out.
Fagin thought it peculiar that she would throw such a fit about taking a walk so he assumed that she
had another lover, or was sick of Sikes brutality. Fagin decides that he needs Nancy to become
more closely allied with himself, and wants to ask her to poison Sikes.
Chapter
45: Fagin informs Noah
that he wants him to spy on Nancy for him. He wants to know everywhere she goes, and whom she
is with. Noah agrees and waits for the time when Fagin wants him to go. The time is the
next Sunday evening, and Fagin takes him and shows him Nancy. She leaves and Noah begins to follow
her.
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