I spoke not, and he took me gently by the hand;–it was indented with the impress of human nails. He directed my attention to some object against the wall;–I looked at it for some minutes;–it was a spade. With a shriek I bounded to the table, and grasped the box that lay upon it. But I could not force it open; and in my tremor it slipped from my hands, and fell heavily, and burst into pieces; and from it, with a rattling sound, there rolled out some instruments of dental surgery, intermingled with thirty-two small, white and ivory-looking substances that were scattered to and fro about the floor.