Minute sounds came to Markham across the distances, the bark of a dog, the lowing of cattle, a shutter closing, human voices near and far, each one distinct, but each mellowed and softened as though strained through a silver mesh.

It will be remembered that the grocer had reserved a communication with the street, by means of a shutter opening from a small room in the upper story.

And he has done it by a dry-plate, quick-shutter process in a manner that surely lays him liable for criminal libel in the assize of high society.

Having awoke in the night, and lain awake for some time in her bed, she heard the handle of the door turn, and a person whom she distinctly sawfor it was a light night, and the window-shutters unclosedbut whom she had never seen before, stepped in on tiptoe, and with an appearance of great caution.

In fact, one evening we did find a wire connecting with the burglar-alarm cut, and, later on, saw some one peering in through the hole in that shutter yonder.