threw the remainder of its contents into the ashes: as a

preparatory ceremony to filling it again for himself: which he

The Jew glanced round the room, as his companion tossed down the

second glassful; not in curiousity, for he had seen it often

before; but in a restless and suspicious manner habitual to him.

It was a meanly furnished apartment, with nothing but the

contents of the closet to induce the belief that its occupier was

anything but a working man; and with no more suspicious articles