Whatever her sorrow had once been, for nearly a century she had ceased to weep, and, my sudden passion spent, my own tears dried away.

I had loved her very dearly in my other life, but it was a hundred years ago! I do not know but some may find in this confession evidence of lack of feeling, but I think, perhaps, that none can have had an experience sufficiently like mine to enable them to judge me.

As we were about to leave the chamber, my eye rested upon the great iron safe which stood in one corner.

Calling my companion's attention to it, I said: "This was my strong room as well as my sleeping room.

In the safe yonder are several thousand dollars in gold, and any amount of securities.