In some of her calmer intervals, she had read the remainder of his letter.

It was chiefly filled with the details of the manner in which the gold had been hidden.

A second fireplace had been built inside the first, leaving a space of several inches between the two brick walls.

On each side two bricks had been so left that they could be easily taken out and replaced; and the bags of gold hung upon iron stanchions in the outer wall.

What a strange picture it must have been in the silent night hours,--the old miser bending above the embers of the dying fire on the hearth, and reaching down the crevice to his treasures! The bags were of leather, curiously embossed; they were almost charred by the heat, and the gold was dull and brown.
"I wonder which old fellow put it there ?" said Stephen, at the end of his letter.