'In the daytime it is always here,' at which word he dropped it into his pocket again.

'You see ?--and at night under my pillow--you hear me ?' 'Yes, sir.' 'You won't forget this cabinet--oak--next the door--on your left--you won't forget ?' 'No, sir.' 'Pity she's a girl, and so young--ay, a girl, and so young--no sense--giddy.

You say, you'll _remember_ ?' 'Yes, sir.' 'It behoves you.' He turned round and looked full upon me, like a man who has taken a sudden resolution; and I think for a moment he had made up his mind to tell me a great deal more.

But if so, he changed it again; and after another pause, he said slowly and sternly--'You will tell nobody what I have said, under pain of my displeasure.' 'Oh! no, sir!' 'Good child!' '_Except_,' he resumed, 'under one contingency; that is, in case I should be absent, and Dr.Bryerly--you recollect the thin gentleman, in spectacles and a black wig, who spent three days here last month--should come and enquire for the key, you understand, in my absence.' 'Yes, sir.' So he kissed me on the forehead, and said-- 'Let us return.' Which, accordingly, we did, in silence; the storm outside, like a dirge on a great organ, accompanying our flitting..