I had not a doubt that I should be hanged if my connection with this tragedy were found out.

The happenings and the impressions of that time are burnt into my memory, and the study of them entertains me as much now as they themselves distressed me then.

If anybody spoke of that grisly matter, I was all ears in a moment, and alert to hear what might be said, for I was always dreading and expecting to find out that I was suspected; and so fine and so delicate was the perception of my guilty conscience, that it often detected suspicion in the most purposeless remarks, and in looks, gestures, glances of the eye which had no significance, but which sent me shivering away in a panic of fright, just the same.

And how sick it made me when somebody dropped, howsoever carelessly and barren of intent, the remark that 'murder will out!' For a boy of ten years, I was carrying a pretty weighty cargo.
All this time I was blessedly forgetting one thing--the fact that I was an inveterate talker in my sleep.

But one night I awoke and found my bed-mate--my younger brother--sitting up in bed and contemplating me by the light of the moon.