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 furniture into the garret?’ ‘And when they do it, Mrs. Maple,’ said Mary, who seemed to me—I did not then know why—more relieved than disappointed by her uncle’s decision, ‘I have something that I want put with the rest; only quite a small packet.’

‘We left that curious room not unwillingly, I think. Uncle Oldys’s orders were carried out that same day. And so,’ concludes Mr. Spearman, ‘Whitminster has a Bluebeard’s chamber, and, I am rather inclined to suspect, a Jack-inthe-box, awaiting some future occupant of the residence of the senior prebendary.’