But, I must confess, this applies only to the space on the side of the bed next the fire.

The bed itself--not to mention the shadowy region beyond it--on which the body of the pirate had lain, he could not regard without a sense of the awfully gruesome: itself looked scared at its own consciousness of the fact, and of the feeling it caused in the beholder.
[Illustration: Cosmo and Aggie Dusting] In the strength of Aggie's presence, he was now able to take a survey of the room such as never before.

Over walls, floor, and ceiling, his eyes were wandering, when suddenly a question arose on which he desired certainty: "Is there," he said to himself, "a door upo' the ither side o' the bed ?" "Did Grannie mak mention o' sic a door ?" he asked himself next, and could not be certain of the answer.

He gazed around him, and saw no door other than that by which they had entered, but at the head of the bed, on the other side, was a space hidden by the curtain: it might be there! When they went to put the sheets on the bed, he would learn! He dared not go till then! "Dare not!" he repeated to himself--and went at once.
He saw and trembled.

It was the strangest feeling.