A dirty card iu the ground-floor window announced the fact that the pl.co was a lodgiug-bouse. After the woman had left I explored, uuder the pretence of wanting rooms, »ud led on the landlady, a garrulous, dirty, iisgrimed womai, to tell rac'somtthing ot her other lailgers.
" H'.'s a good-for-nothing fellow—though & good lodger, and I should not My it,' she re marked cniill l iniinlly— 11 the genllrniKn abi<vo Drinks Mil! and I wouldn't lake half tho trnnl)\(i with hioi ss his sider does-such a line, lady, t«>—«lw conies t» reodiim now and then. Us soiuclt'in;; the scones they have.
The mau't mm-. was Houseman, and the woman who came to i-ea him was the mysterious culler from Mr. lemi's home. I arranged ti. tilie. tlm rooms beneath this si-pi! H'lis gentleman, There seemed a chance !.y dome»»i>t eliMiiug up tiiat mysterious dis- J|'l> , -»lilt-eetifUii!iiia.ui.nls.
In a few <kys 1 led Icari.t a food deal about i'ds man, and wea-.ed promising, when a trrillde evcHt ecanied.
J iie inj.iteriuus luJv visitor hwi tailed again lltslevimiiit, ami her.-, RlM i Houseman's voices lli.tl bi-en distinctly ;m<iiUlc fur some time They note talking in Ininl umi tlio tjuuTiel '.Mined a ftriims one,

All of a sudden tlioyceased. The door above was Klaintneii 10, a wom:m hurriedly passed itohii aui! in Uio light of the street letups 1 snw Ih:c lustily make her way Uowu tho

"He is deed Mr. Houseman's ilcad

My landlady, trhile and trembling, had lushed into my room with these words, and as slit sunk into a chair 1 pushed her ami undo my way tn tint sitting-room of my unfortunate lellow-lodrar.
