framed
against Oliver, and so restore to him his rights and name, or else he
could refuse, in which case he would at once be arrested and sent to
prison. Seeing that Mr. Brownlow knew all about the part he had played,
Monks, to save himself, made a full confession--how he had planned to
keep his half-brother from his inheritance. And he also confessed what
no one there had guessed: that Miss Rose, who had been adopted in her
infancy, was really the sister of Oliver's dead mother--his aunt,
indeed. This was the happiest of all Oliver's surprises that day, for he
had learned to love Miss Rose very dearly.

Monks thus bought his own freedom, and cheap enough he probably thought
it, for before he had finished his story, word came that Fagin the Jew
had been captured by the police and was to be tried without delay for
his life.

Oliver no longer had anything to fear, and came into possession of his
true name and his fortune. Mr. Brownlow adopted him as his own son, and
moved to the village where Oliver had been cared for in the family of
Miss Rose, and where they all lived happily ever afterward.

The company of thieves was broken up with Fagin's arrest. Fagin himself
was found guilty, and died on the gallows shrieking with fear. Monks
sailed for America, where he was soon detected in crime and died in
prison.

The wicked apprentice, who had been the real cause of poor Nancy's
murder, was so frightened at the fate of Fagin that he reformed and
became a spy for the police, and by his aid the Artful Dodger, who
continued to pick pockets, soon found himself in jail.

As for Mr. and Mrs. Bumble, they, of course, lost their positions, and
sank from bad to worse till they finally became paupers and were sent to
the very same poorhouse where they had tortured little Oliver Twist.

BARNABY RUDGE

Published 1841

_Scene_: London and the Country

_Time_: 1775 to 1780

CHARACTERS

Barnaby Rudge A half-witted boy

Rudge His father
A murderer

Mrs. Rudge His mother

Geoffrey Haredale A country gentleman

Emma Haredale His niece

Sir John Chester An enemy of Haredale's

Edward Chester His son