you will accompany me thither, so that we may talk at our
leisure. I would gladly accompany you to your ship instead of
urging you to come to my apartments, but I must tell you I am
possessed of a devil of a fever, so that my physician hath
forbidden me to be out of nights."

"Indeed," said Jonathan, whom, you may have observed, was of a
very easy disposition--"indeed, I shall be very glad to accompany
thee to thy lodgings. There is nothing I would like better than
to serve any friend of good Jeremiah Doolittle's."

And thereupon, and with great amity, the two walked off together,
the little one-eyed gentleman in black linking his arm
confidingly into that of Jonathan's, and tapping the pavement
continually with his cane as he trotted on at a great pace. He
was very well acquainted with the town (of which he was a
citizen), and so interesting was his discourse that they had gone
a considerable distance before Jonathan observed they were
entering into a quarter darker and less frequented than that
which they had quitted. Tall brick houses stood upon either side,
between which stretched a narrow, crooked roadway, with a kennel
running down the centre.

In front of one of these houses--a tall and gloomy structure--our
hero's conductor stopped and, opening the door with a key,
beckoned for him to enter. Jonathan having complied, his
new-found friend led the way up a flight of steps, against which
Jonathan's feet beat noisily in the darkness, and at length,
having ascended two stairways and having reached a landing, he
opened a door at the end of the passage and ushered Jonathan into