Tonight I was on a very special mission for mister Fagin. It all started a week ago, when he came to me during my breakfast and told me he had a piece of work for me that required "great care and caution." Ha! No man better than me in the world for a job like that! I was buttering my bread (Charlotte not being there to do it for me) as he explained that I was to follow a young woman. Turns out that young woman was one of Fagin's own dames that could no longer be trusted. Oh Lor! It was getting interesting! I was told to report where she had gone, who she had seen and what she had said. And the best part of it was that the old Jew was paying me one pound for it! Just to prove how dependable I am, he says he hadn’t ever paid anyone else such a respectable amount. Ha! This life of sneaking around is definitely the life for me. I tells him he can count on me, and that I was a regular cunning sneak at school, and he says to wait for the proper time.
And then it was tonight that I was called out to dodge the woman. I memorized her face in an instant when I saw her; I would have known her amongst a thousand. Nancy was her name, I think, and she seemed very weary of being followed. But she never doubted I was just a few steps behind her, ha! It was just a bit past midnight when that Nancy girl met up with a grey-haired gentleman and a pretty young woman. I cleverly got into the perfect position for spying on them, and heard their conversation perfectly. I didn't understand much of what they where saying, but I caught all the important bits and, when they had finished their secretive conversation, reported it all back to Fagin. He seemed to be in very deep thought after I told him what that treacherous Nancy had done, so I made sure to get my reward before he forgot. Ha! People like that girl who don’t know their place will eventually get what they deserve! I tell yer, if Charlotte ever did anything to my disadvantage, I'd make sure she'd never even think about doing it again.
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