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I now made arrangements for my journey, but one feeling haunted

me which filled me with fear and agitation. During my absence I

should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their

enemy and unprotected from his attacks, exasperated as he might

be by my departure. But he had promised to follow me wherever I

might go, and would he not accompany me to England? This

imagination was dreadful in itself, but soothing inasmuch as it

supposed the safety of my friends. I was agonised with the idea

of the possibility that the reverse of this might happen. But

through the whole period during which I was the slave of my

creature I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the

moment; and my present sensations strongly intimated that the

fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his

machinations.