By employing these means of watching him, I believe I may look forward to the discovery of his secret--if he knows anything about the lost bank-notes--as to a dead certainty.
What you may think of my plan of observation I cannot undertake to say.

It appears to me to unite the invaluable merits of boldness and simplicity.

Fortified by this conviction, I close the present communication with feelings of the most sanguine description in regard to the future, and remain your obedient servant, MATTHEW SHARPIN.
FROM THE SAME TO THE SAME.
7th July.
SIR--As you have not honored me with any answer to my last communication, I assume that, in spite of your prejudices against me, it has produced the favorable impression on your mind which I ventured to anticipate.

Gratified and encouraged beyond measure by the token of approval which your eloquent silence conveys to me, I proceed to report the progress that has been made in the course of the last twenty-four hours.
I am now comfortably established next door to Mr.Jay, and I am delighted to say that I have two holes in the partition instead of one.
My natural sense of humor has led me into the pardonable extravagance of giving them both appropriate names.

One I call my peep-hole, and the other my pipe-hole.