He was in full possession of his faculties, and told them all.

How Stevens had saved him from the gallows--and how he agreed to murder Mr.Garie--of his failure when the time of action arrived, and how, in consequence, Stevens had committed the deed, and how he had paid him time after time to keep his secret.
"In my trunk there," said he, in a dying whisper,--"in my trunk is the will.

I found it that night amongst his papers.

I kept it to get money out of his children with when old Stevens was gone.

Here," continued he, handing his key from beneath the pillow, "open my trunk and get it." Mr.Balch eagerly unlocked the trunk, and there, sure enough, lay the long-sought-for and important document.
"I knew it would be found at last.