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'Upon this I acted

'The first question was how to dispose of the body The impulse of the ine-house and waterfall; but it struck me that I should not have ti- about the place I would put off burying her till the next night I carried her indoors

'In turning the outhouse into a workshop, earlier in the season, I found, when driving a nail into the wall for fixing a cupboard, that the wall sounded hollow I examined it, and discovered behind the plaster an old oven which had long been disused, and was bricked up when the house was prepared for me

'To unfix this cupboard and pull out the bricks was the work of a fewin ht, I placed it in a sack, pushed it into the oven, packed in the bricks, and replaced the cupboard

'I then went to bed In bed, I thought whether there were any very reht lead to the supposition thathouse The thing which struck ht think it odd that no re and triu the ruins of the destroyed house But I could not do this, on account of the ainst an outbreak of the fire One reain, dressed myself, and went down to the outhouse I ain I did take it down I pulled out the bricks, pulled out the sack, pulled out the corpse, and took her keys from her pocket and the watch fro as before

'With these articles in h the withy copse to the churchyard, entering it fro till I caraves are sometimes piled behind the laurel-bushes I had been earnestly hoping to find a skull ah I had frequently seen one or two in the rubbish here, there was not one now I then groped in the other corner with the sa and back-bones were all I could collect, and with these I was forced to be content