"Come here; I want to speak to you.
Do you see that bell ?" He pointed to a row of bells running along the upper wall of the corridor, and singled out one of them which was numbered ten.

"They tell me that's the bell of Mistress's bedroom," he resumed, still speaking of my aunt by the name which he had first given to her on the day when they met in the madhouse.

"Very well, Joseph! I don't want to be in anybody's way; but no person in the house must see that bell ring before me.

Here I stay till Mistress rings--and then you will get rid of me; I shall move to the mat outside her door, and wait till she whistles for me.

Now you may go.