Then he gave Potts his watch as a keepsake, and handed him forty dollars, with which he desired Mr.Potts to purchase a tombstone.

He said he would prefer a plain one with his simple name cut upon it, and he wanted the funeral to be as unostentatious as possible.
Potts promised to fulfill these commissions, and he suggested that he would lend Mr.Lamb a bowie-knife, with which he could slash himself up if the pistol failed.
But the suicide said that he would make sure work with the revolver, although he was much obliged for the offer all the same.

He said he would like Potts to go around in the morning and break the news as gently as possible to his unhappy mother, and to tell her that his last thought was of her.

But he particularly requested that she would not put on mourning for her erring son.
Then he said that the awful act would be performed on the beach, just below the gas-works, and he wished Potts to come out with some kind of a vehicle to bring the remains home.

If Julia came to the funeral, she was to have a seat in the carriage next to the hearse; and if she wanted his heart, it was to be given to her in alcohol.