d door before he entered the
            parlour; and he was always sure to be as silent as a mouse when any such
            was present. For me, at least, there was no secret about the matter, for
            I was, in a way, a sharer in his alarms. He had taken me aside one day
            and promised me a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I
            would only keep my "weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg"
            and let him know the moment he appeared. Often enough w