up, but the place is really not fit.”
</p>
<p>
“Why, then,” said the lawyer, good-naturedly, “the best thing
we can do is to stay down here and speak with you from where we are.”
</p>
<p>
“That is just what I was about to venture to propose,” returned the
doctor with a smile. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was
struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and
despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below. They saw it but
for a gl