ABSTRACT
It was already past midnight, dark, gusty, and threatening rain, though none had yet fallen, when I observed a person issue abruptly out of the house I was watching, and hurry along, as if something serious were the matter. As I was on the opposite side of the street, I could not, with the scanty light afforded by the lamps, tell whether it was a gentleman or a servant. If the latter, I concluded that he must be despatched on very urgent business; and if it were a gentleman, that he must be actuated by some powerful feeling. On no other supposition could I account for the violence and rapidity of his movements.
