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" 'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it must be when I saw the door open.'

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" 'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted.

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" 'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!' -- you cannot think how caressing and soothing his manner was -- 'and what has frightened you, my dear young lady?'

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"But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I was keenly on my guard against him.

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" 'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in there!'

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" 'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly.

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" 'Why, what did you think?' I asked.

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" 'Why do you think that I lock this door?'

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" 'I am sure that I do not know.


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