She pressed her own finger on this place, and, as it yielded with a slight click, a small mahogany pilaster sprang forward, revealing its well-kept secret that it was the mask of a tall, deep, very narrow drawer.

There was something heavy in it, and, as Myrtle turned it over, a golden bracelet fell into her hand.

She recognized it at once as that which had been long ago the ornament of the fair woman whose portrait hung in her chamber.

She clasped it upon her wrist, and from that moment she felt as if she were the captive of the lovely phantom who had been with her in her dream.
"The old man walked last night, God save us!" said Kitty Fagan to Biddy Finnegan, the day after Myrtle's nightmare and her curious discovery..