found well read in the art of concealing a the possibility of false to the drawers did not escape her and she felt round each with anxious in vain the place in the middle alone remained now and though she had never from the first had the smallest idea of anything in any part of the cabinet and was not in the least disappointed at her in success thus far it would be foolish not to examine it thoroughly while she was about it it was some time however before she could the door the same difficulty in the management of this inner lock as of the outer but at length it did open and not vain as hitherto search her quick eyes directly fell on a roll of paper pushed back into the further part of the apparently for concealment and her feelings at that moment were indescribable her heart fluttered her knees trembled and her cheeks grew pale she seized with an unsteady hand e precious manuscript for half a glance to ascertain written characters and while she acknowledged with awful sensations this striking of what henry had foretold resolved instantly to every line before she attempted to rest the of the light her candle made her torn to it with alarm but there was no danger of its sudden it had yet some hours to bum and that she might not have any greater difficulty in the writing than what its ancient date might occasion she hastily it alas it was and extinguished in one a lamp could not have expired with more effect for a few moments was motionless with horror it was done completely not a of light in the could give pe to the breath darkness impenetrable and filled the room a violent gust of wind rising abbey with added fresh to the moment trembled from head to foot in the s a like receding and the of a distant door on her n could support no more a cold at of a on h the from ip hand ai d her i aj to the bed she jumped in md so k me of ago y hy far u a tbe to close her eyes in sleep that night she felt i be y of the question with a c j s wi ei an feelings in every way so agitated r must a t impossible the storm too abroad so dread l h d not used to feel from w but now w mt seemed with awful the ma f i so wonderfully found so wonderfully t b ing s l it be for it contain to it relate fo � e j ld it have been long ai d k � y g that it should to her lot tp discover it t h herself its i he neither repose nor comfort and the m je p was determined to it l t many w tf � wi hours must yet e s about in her be and envied every w p storm still an various were i f f � f even than the wind which struck at on ber f tor ld ear the veiy curtains of her ed se sit in motion and at another t of her do g c ti w by the attempt of jt n seemed to creep the e more than o ca her blood was chilled by the of ui q after hour passed away and t ie wearied gathering had heard three proclaimed all in the t the tempest subsided or she fell fast a b chapter xxii turn s folding back her window shutters at o clock the n ct day was the sound which first roused and she opened her eyes wondering that they could ever have been closed on objects of cheerfulness her fire was already burning and a bright morning had succeeded the tempest of the night with the of existence returned her recollection of the and springing from her bed in the veiy moment of maid s going away she eagerly every scattered sheet had burst from the roll on its falling to the ground and flew back to enjoy the of their perusal on her pillow she now saw that she must not expect a manuscript of equal length with the of what she over in books for the seeming to consist entirely of small sheets was altogether but of trifling and much less than she had supposed it to be at first her greedy eye glanced rapidly over a page she started at its import could it be possible or did not her senses play her an of linen in coarse and modern characters seemed all that was before her if the evidence of sight might be trusted she held a washing bill in her hand she another sheet and saw the same articles a third a fourth and a fifth presented nothing new shirts stockings and faced her in each two others by the same hand marked an expenditure scarcely more interesting in letters shoe string and breeches ball and the larger sheet had enclosed the rest seemed by its first line to chestnut mare a s bill such was the of papers left perhaps as she could then suppose by the of a servant in the place whence she had taken them which had filled her with expectation and alarm and had robbed her of half her m s rest she felt to the dost could the adventure of the chest have taught abbey her wisdom a comer of it catching her eye as she lay seemed to rise up in judgment against her nothing could now be clearer than the absurdity of her recent fancies to suppose that a manuscript of many generations back could have remained in a room as that so modem so or that she should be the first to possess the skill of a cabinet the key 