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-- Mysterious Disappearance of the Tobacco-box.
M'Gowan's mind, at this period of our narrative, was busily engaged in arranging his plans--for we need scarcely add here, that whether founded on justice or not, he had more than one ripening.

Still there preyed upon him a certain secret anxiety, from which, by no effort, could he succeed in ridding himself.

The disappearance of the Tobacco-box kept him so ill at ease and unhappy, that he resolved, on his way home, to make a last effort at finding it out, if it could be done; and many a time did he heartily curse his own stupidity for ever having suffered it to remain in his house or about it, especially when it was so easy to destroy it.

His suspicions respecting it most certainly rested upon.
Nelly, whom he now began to regard with a feeling of both hatred and alarm.