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46 who had been staring towards the door, to turn and look at me.

"I'll keep him out five minutes." He exclaimed. "You won't object?"

"No, you may keep him out the whole night, for me," I answered. "Do! put the key in the lock, and draw the bolts."

Earnshaw accomplished this, ere his guest reached the front; he then came, and brought his chair to the other side of my table; leaning over it, and searching in my eyes, a sympathy with the burning hate that gleamed from his: as he both looked, and felt like an assassin, he couldn't exactly find that; but he discovered enough to encourage him to speak.

"You, and I," he said, "have each a great debt to settle with the man out yonder! If we were neither of us cowards, we might combine to discharge it. Are you as soft as your brother? Are you willing to endure to the last, and not once attempt a repayment?"

"I'm weary of enduring now;" I replied,