"Well, what is it?" asked the other, as the boy hesitated.

"Won't you look in your trunk--carefully--before you lock it?" exclaimedCharlie.

"Why?" asked Seabrooke, much surprised, and thinking for a momentthat Charlie's headache must have produced something like delirium.

"0h, because," exclaimed Charlie, thinking how he could best warnSeabrooke and yet not betray Flagg, "because--there's something inyour trunk."

"0f course there is," exclaimed Seabrooke, "lots of things, I shouldsay--pretty much all I possess is there."