Yet,--after all, as far as I have been able to conjecture, there is a strong similarity in the cases.

The feeling among the people here is, that he is a gentleman by birth: but this may proceed from the air and manners which he can assume when he pleases.

I would mention my whole design and object at hazard, but this would be running an unnecessary risk by intrusting my secret to him; and, although it is evident that he can preserve his own, it does not necessarily follow that he would keep mine.

However, I must only persevere and bide my time, as the Scotch say." He again rose, and, pacing the apartment once more, his features assumed a still deeper expression of inward agitation.
"And, again," he exclaimed, "that unfortunate rencounter! Great Heavens, what if I stand here a murderer, with the blood of a fellow-creature, hurried, I fear, in the very midst of his profligacy, into eternity! The thought is insupportable; and I know not, unless I can strictly preserve my incognito, whether I am at this moment liable, if apprehended, to pay the penalty which the law exacts.

The only consolation that remains for me is, that the act was not of my seeking, but arrogantly and imperiously forced upon me.".