She surely knows more than I thought, or she would not fix her eye into mine as she did.

Could there be anything in that dhrame about Dalton an' my coffin?
Hut! that's nonsense.

Many a dhrame I had that went for nothin'.

The only thing she could stumble on is the Box, an' I don't think she would be likely to find that out, unless she went to throw down the house; but, anyhow, it's no harm to thry." He immediately mounted the old table, and, stretching up, searched the crevice in the wall where it had been, but, we need not add, in vain.

He then came down again, in a state of dreadful alarm, and made a general search for it in every hole and corner visible, after, which his agitation became wild and excessive.
"She has got it!" he exclaimed--"she has stumbled on it, aided by the devil'-- an' may she soon be in his clutches!--and it's the only thing I'm afeard of! But then," he added, pausing, and getting somewhat cool--"does she know it might be brought against me, or who owned it?
I don't think she does; but still, where can it be, and what could she mane by Providence trackin' me out ?--an' why did she look as if she: knew something?
Then that dhrame I can't get it out o' my head this whole day--and the terrible one I had last night, too! But that last is aisily 'counted for.