I even pulled my chair over to that portion of the room where his bed had stood, and, choosing the spot where his head would naturally lie, threw back my own on the reclining chair I had chosen, and allowed my gaze to wander over the walls before me in a vague hope of reproducing, in my mind, the ideas which must have passed through his before he rose and thrust those papers into their place of concealment.
Alas! those walls were barren of all suggestion, and my eyes went wandering through the window before me in a vague appeal, when a sudden remembrance of his last moments struck me sharply and I bounded up with a new thought, a new idea, which sent me in haste to my room and brought me down again in hat and jacket.

Mrs.Packard had once said that the ladies next door were pleased to have callers, and advised me to visit them.

I would test her judgment in the matter.

Early though it was, I would present myself at the neighboring door and see what my reception would be.

The discovery I had made in my unfortunate accident in the old entry way should be my excuse.