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As Joe works, the middle-class guests—including the pompous and Mr. Wopsle —treat the impending manhunt like an entertaining "fox hunt". Pip, however, is consumed by dread. He is terrified that if the convicts are caught, his own secret theft of food and a file will be revealed. The Capture on the Marshes

: Before being led away to the prison ships (the Hulks), Magwitch tells the sergeant that he was the one who stole a pie and a file from the blacksmith's house. 5. Great Ex-pectations

Joe, Pip, and Mr. Wopsle follow the soldiers out into the raw, misty marshes. They eventually find the two escaped convicts, and his bitter enemy Compeyson , locked in a violent struggle in a ditch. As Joe works