Yes, I guess she will marry him and carry him round in a basket, like a lame bantam: Look here!--he said, mysteriously;--one of the boarders swears there's a woman comes to see him, and that he has heard her singin' and screechin'.

I should like to know what he's about in that den of his.

He lays low 'n' keeps dark,--and, I tell you, there's a good many of the boarders would like to get into his chamber, but he don't seem to want 'em.

Biddy could tell somethin' about what she's seen when she 's been to put his room to rights.

She's a Paddy 'n' a fool, but she knows enough to keep her tongue still.