Dead! dead as this (smacking the dresser with his hand).

We look again, and see a bit of paper pinned to the collar of his coat.

Aha! son of mine, you start at that.

I thought I should make you start at last." I had started, indeed.

That paper was doubtless the leaf mentioned in the second's unfinished narrative as having been torn out of his pocketbook, and inscribed with the statement of how the dead man had lost his life.