But I made him promise to say nothing to anybody either by word of mouth or letter, without telling me first.

Then I made him a rummer of toddy and sent him to bed a trifle comforted.
The first thing I did in my new room was to shift the bed into the corner out of line with the window.

There were no shutters, so I put up an old table-top and jammed it between the window frames.

Also, I loaded my shot-gun and kept it by my bedside.

Had Wardlaw seen these preparations he might have thought more of my imagination and less of my nerve.