The body was encoffined, and the two of us bore it to its rest. The vault in which we placed it was small, damp, and entirely without means of admission for light, lying at great depth immediately beneath that portion of the building in which my own sleeping apartment was. We replaced and screwed down the lid, and, having secured the door of iron, made our way into the scarcely less gloomy apartments of the upper house. A striking alteration came over my friend. He roamed from chamber to chamber with hurried, unequal and objectless step. His ordinary pallor had given place to a species of mad hilarity in his eye. There were times when I thought his unceasingly agitated mind was labouring with some oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the necessary courage.