behind him for some time the two looked upon each other in perfect silence then mr jones moved forward to the table took a seat and still without once changing the direction of his eyes addressed the young man you are right he said it is for me the blood money is offered and now what will you do it was a question to which was far from being able to reply taken as he was at unawares in the man s own coat and surrounded by a whole of the keeper of the lodging house was silenced yes resumed the other i am he i am that man whom with impotent hate and fear they still hunt from den to den from disguise to disguise yes my landlord you have it in your power if you be poor to lay the basis of l o the superfluous mansion your fortune if you be unknown to capture honor at one snatch you have an innocent widow and i find you here in my apartment for whose use i pay you in stamped money searching my wardrobe and your hand � shame sir � your hand in my very pocket you can now complete the of your acts by what will be at once the simplest the safest and most the speaker paused as if to his words and then with a great change of tone and manner thus resumed and yet sir when i look upon your face i feel certain that i can not be deceived certain that in spite of all i have the honor and pleasure of speaking to a gentleman take off my coat sir � which but you yourself of this confusion that which is but thought upon thank god need be no burden to the conscience we have all guilty thoughts and if it flashed into your mind to sell my flesh and blood my anguish in the dock and the sweat of my death agony � it was a thought dear sir you were as incapable of acting on as i of any further question of your honor at these words the speaker with a very open smiling countenance like a father offered his hand it was not in the young man s nature to refuse forgiveness or generosity he the superfluous mansion l l instantly and almost without thought accepted the grasp and now resumed the now that i hold in mine your loyal hand i lay by my apprehensions i dismiss suspicion further � by an of will i banish the memory of what is past how you came here i care not enough that you are here � as my guest sit ye down and let us with your good permission improve acquaintance over a glass of excellent so speaking he produced glasses and a bottle and the pair pledged each other in silence confess observed the smiling host you were surprised at the appearance of the room i was indeed said nor can i imagine the purpose of these changes these replied the are the devices by which i continue to exist conceive me now accused before one of your unjust conceive the various witnesses appearing and the singular variety of their reports i one wiu have visited me in this drawing room as it originally stood a second finds it as it is to night and to morrow or next day all may have been changed if you love romance as artists do few lives are more romantic than that of the obscure individual now addressing you obscure yet famous mine is an infernal glory by infamous means i x the superfluous mansion work toward my bright purpose i found the liberty and peace of a poor country desperately abused the future smiles upon that land yet in the meantime i lead the existence of a hunted brute work toward appalling ends and practice s glass in hand contemplated the strange before him and listened to his heated with indescribable ment he looked him in the face with curious saw there the marks of education and wondered the more profoundly sir he said � for i know not whether i should still address you as mr jones jones by all or any of these you may address me said the for all i have at some time borne yet that which i most price that which is most feared hated and obeyed is not a name to be found in your it is not a name current in post offices or banks and indeed like the celebrated m i may justly describe myself as being nameless by day but he continued rising to his feet by night and among my desperate followers i am the was with the name but he politely expressed surprise and gratification i am to understand he continued the superfluous mansion that this you follow the profession of a the had resumed his seat and now the glasses i do he said in this dark period of time a star � the star of � has risen for the oppressed and among those who practice its use so thick beset with dangers and attended by such incredible difficulties and disappointments few have been more and not many he paused and a shade of embarrassment appeared upon his face not many have been more successful than myself i can imagine observed that from the sweeping consequences looked for the career is not devoid of interest tou have besides some of the entertainment of the game of hide and seek but it would still seem to me � i speak as a � that nothing could the author of the original has here a long passage conceived in a style too oriental for the english reader we a specimen and it seems doubtful whether it should be printed as prose or verse any who writes shall find in me a and he goes on if we 