Mrs.Packard told me about the bonds you lost, and how you thought them still in the house where your brother died, though no one has ever been able to find them there.

Oh, sit down," I entreated, as they both turned very pale and looked at each other in affright.

"I don't wonder that you have felt their loss keenly; I don't wonder that you have done your utmost to recover them, but what I do wonder at is that you were so sure they were concealed in the room where he lay that you never thought of looking elsewhere.

Do you remember, Miss Quinlan, where his eyes were fixed at the moment of death ?" "On the window directly facing his bed." "Gazing at what ?" "Sky--no, the walls of our house." "Be more definite; at the old side door through which he could see the closet shelves where this old tureen stood.

During the time you had been gone, he had realized his sinking condition, and, afraid of the nurse he saw advancing down the street, summoned all his strength and rushed with his treasure across the alley-way and put it in the first hiding-place his poor old eyes fell on.