You are good, I am sure;
I see that in your face. Alas! how much more wretched would have been
my condition if you had not fortunately come to our assistance! too
late indeed to save my poor father, but not too late to succor and
console his child. I will go away with you, for I can not stay here."
CHAPTER XVI.
Edward then took the counterpane off the bed, and went with it into
the next room. He gently drew the body to the corner of the room, and
covered it up with the counterpane, and then proceeded to examine the
cupboards, etc. In one he found a good store of books, in another
there was linen of all sorts, a great many curious arms, two suits of
bright armor such as was worn in those times, pistols, and guns, and
ammunition. On the floor of one of the cupboards was an iron chest
about two feet by eighteen inches. It was locked. Edward immediately
concluded that this chest held the money of the unfortunate man; but
where was the key? Most likely about his person. He did not like to
afflict the poor boy by putting the question to him, but he went to
the body and examined the pockets of the clothes; he found a bunch of
several keys, which he took, and then replaced the coverlid. He tried
one of the keys, which appeared to be of the right size, to the lock
of the iron chest, and found that it fitted it.
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