`` Because he 's gone ! '' said Tackleton ; `` and the window 's open . I do n't see any marks -- to be sure , it 's almost on a level with the garden : but I was afraid there might have been some -- some scuffle . Eh ? '' He nearly shut up the expressive eye altogether ; he looked at him so hard . And he gave his eye , and his face , and his whole person , a sharp twist . As if he would have screwed the truth out of him . `` Make yourself easy , '' said the Carrier . `` He went into that room last night , without harm in word or deed from me , and no one has entered it since . He is away of his own free-will . I 'd go out gladly at that door , and beg my bread from house to house , for life , if I could so change the past that he had never come . But he has come and gone . And I have done with him ! '' `` Oh ! -- Well , I think he has got off pretty easy , '' said Tackleton , taking a chair . The sneer was lost upon the Carrier , who sat down too , and shaded his face with his hand , for some little time , before proceeding . `` You showed me last night , '' he said at length , `` my wife -- my wife that I love -- secretly -- '' `` And tenderly , '' insinuated Tackleton . '' -- Conniving at that man 's disguise , and giving him opportunities of meeting her alone . I think there 's no sight I would n't have rather seen than that . I think there 's no man in the world I would n't have rather had to show it me . ''
`` I confess to having had my suspicions always , '' said XXXXX .
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