No matther--not all the wather in the sky 'ud clear my mind that there's not villany joined with that Tobaccy-box, though where it could go, or what could come of it (barrin' the devil himself or the fairies tuck it,) I don't know." So far as concerned the coroner, the rumor of his having caught the prevailing typhus was not founded on fact.

A short indisposition, arising from a cold caught by a severe wetting, but by no means of a serious or alarming nature, was his only malady; and when the day to which the inquest had been postponed had arrived, he was sufficiently recovered to conduct that important investigation.

A very large crowd was assembled upon the occasion, and a deep interest prevailed throughout that part of the country.

The circumstances, however, did not, as it happened, admit of any particular difficulty Jerry Sullivan and his friends attended as, was their duty, in order to give evidence touching the identity of the body.

This, however, was a matter of peculiar difficulty.