Summary

Chapter 5. The soldiers ask Joe to fix a pair of handcuffs they will need when they find the escaped convicts. Joe agrees, and while he works on them the rest of the party talks about the convicts, distracting Mrs. Joe from the missing pie. When the handcuffs are fixed, Joe and Mr. Wopsle decide to go along with the soldier to help them make their way through the marshes. Pip goes along as well. They walk a long distance and Joe has to lift Pip onto his shoulders because Pip becomes tired. Finally they find the convicts engaged in a fist fight. One convict claims the other attempted to kill him. The other, Pip’s convict, denies the charge. When the soldiers have subdued the convicts, Pip makes a sign to his convict to show that he had nothing to do with the soldiers finding...