and disagreement. Where they were different, he would make

have powerful motives for a secret residence, or be reduced to a

destitute condition indeed, who seek a refuge in Jacob's Island.

In an upper room of one of these houses--a detached house of fair

size, ruinous in other respects, but strongly defended at door

and window: of which house the back commanded the ditch in

manner already described--there were assembled three men, who,

regarding each other every now and then with looks expressive of

perplexity and expectation, sat for some time in profound and