stairs.
There!”
With those
words, the
Jew,
stooping
down,
placed the
candle on
an upper
flight of
stairs,
exactly
opposite
to the
room door.
This done,
he led the
way into
the
apartment;
which was
destitute
of all
movables
save a
broken
arm-chair,
and an old
couch or
sofa
without
covering,
which
stood
behind the
door. Upon
this piece
of
furniture,
the
stranger
sat
himself
with the
air of a
weary man;
and the
Jew,
drawing up
