Kindly sign the paper where Mr.Fordham shows you.' "I signed the paper as directed, and the lawyer took it away with him.

The singular incident made, as you may think, the deepest impression upon me, and I pondered over it and turned it every way in my mind without being able to make anything of it.

Yet I could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left behind, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives.

I could see a change in my uncle, however.

He drank more than ever, and he was less inclined for any sort of society.