"He was lying, with his head and shoulders out of bed, in an uncomfortable attitude, half-resting on the box which had caused him so much pain and trouble. I had learned, that, when he was past creeping out of bed to open it, and past reassuring himself of its safety by means of the divining rod I had seen him use, he had required to have it placed on the chair at the bedside, where he had ever since embraced it, night and day. Time and the world were slipping from beneath him, but the box was there"