It's the morning of a damp day, and Pip goes to meet the mysterious man. All the way to the Battery, he feels bad because he stole so many things from this house.
When Pip arrives there, he sees a man hiding on the marshes. Despite be wearing the same clothes as the man from the last night, and have the same iron leg, he is not the same person. He is another convict who, in their last meeting was hiding in the woods. The man sees Pip, hit him and then flees.
"And yet this man was dressed in coarse grey, too, and had a great iron on his leg, and was lame, and hoarse, and cold, and was everything that the other man was; except that he had not the same face, and had a flat broad-brimmed low-crowned felt that on"
After that, Pip sees in the distance his terrible fellow, the legitime, limping and waiting for him. The man seems to be cold, wet and starving. Pip gives him the file and all the food. For a moment the man seemed to be gentle with Pip, but when Pip mentions the other convict he encountered in the marshes, the man becomes violent and threatening again.
"He held me by the collar and stared at me so, that I began to think his first idea about cutting my throat had revived."
Meanwhile, Pip leaves the Battery and the man starts trying to unleash the iron leg with the file.
See you in Chapter four.
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