day said mr offering hand glad to have seen you in writing by post � in new south wales � or in co with him through have the ness to mention that the particulars and our long account shall be sent to you together w the balance for there is a balance good day we shook hands and he looked hard at me long as he could see me i turned at the door and still looking at me � � o n te tbe shelf seemed to be a and to force ont of swollen a man he was out and though he had been at his he could have done nothing for me i went back to the temple e i found the terrible drinking rum and water and smoking negro iu safety next day the clothes i had ordered all came home sad he put them on whatever he put on became hi n it to me than what he had worn before to my thinking there was in bin di it made it hopeless tn attempt to disguise him the ii i dressed him and the better i dressed him the � he looked like the fugitive on the this effect on my anxious fancy was partly no doubt to his old face and manner grow familiar to me but i believe too that lie � ri d one of hia legs as if there were still a weight on it and that from head to foot there was i in the very grain of the man the influences of his solitary hut life were upon mm besides and gave him a savage air that no dress tame added to these were the influences of hia ij life among men and crowning au that he was and hiding now ill all his ways of sitting and standing and eating and drinking � of brooding about in a high shouldered reluctant style � of taking out his great handled knife and wiping it on his legs and cutting his food � of lifting light glasses and to hia as if they were clumsy � of wed off ills bread and up a � i cf of round and round a e � make the most of aa allowance and on it and then it � and a other small i every minute in the day there was plain as plain could be it had been his own idea to wear that torn powder and i had the powder after coming the but i can compare the effect when on to nothing but the probable effect of i upon the dead ao awful was the manner in everything in him that it was most desirable to n started through that thin of pretence and a to come blazing oat at the crown of his head abandoned as soon as tried and he wore his gi hair cut short words cannot tell what a sense i had at tie time of the dreadful mystery that he was to me lie fell asleep of an evening with his knotted l the sides of the easy chair and ms bald with deep wrinkles falling forward breast i would sit and look at him he had done and him with all the c the until the impulse was powerful on i start up and fly from him every hour s my of him that i even think i might yielded to this impulse in the first agonies of haunted notwithstanding all he had done for me the risk he ran but for the knowledge that si must soon come back once i actually did of bed in the night and begin to dress myself i worst clothes hurriedly intending to leave him w ch else i e as a private soldier expectations if a ghost could have heen more terrible to t p in those lonely rooms in the long evenings and nights with the wind and the rain always rushing a ghost could not have been taken and hanged � a y account and the consideration that he could be the dread that he would ba were no small addition my horrors when he was not asleep or playing a kind of patience with a ragged pack of of his own � a game that i never saw before or face and in which he recorded his by stick his jack knife into the table � when he was not in either of these pursuits he would me ta read to him � foreign language dear boy while i complied he not a single would stand before the fire surveying me with the air of an and i would see him between ihe fingers of the hand with which i shaded my face appealing in show to the furniture to take notice of my the imaginary student by the creature he had made was not more wretched than i pursued by the creature made me and from him with a mi the more he admired me and the he was of me this is written of i am sensible as if it had lasted � year it lasted about five days expecting all the time i dared not go out except when i took for an after dark at length one evening dinner was over and i had dropped into a slumber worn out � for my nights had been agitated and my rest broken by fearful dreams � i was ti welcome footstep on the staircase tv too staggered np at tke no sa and in an instant i saw ms knife in hand quiet it a i said and bursting in with airy freshness of six bu miles of france upon him my dear fellow how are you and how are yon and again how are i seem to been gone a why so i must have for you have grown quite thin and pale � i beg your 