How? you told me before, he waited for you.

_Counsellor._ Besides--they are only copies--the originals----

_Lewis._ No doubt you have those also, as you opened his bureau; shew
me those papers.

_Counsellor._ Don't be so impatient: the originals--they are not
amongst them.

_Lewis._ No?

_Counsellor._ No!

_Lewis_ [coldly]. Let me see; shew me the papers.

_Counsellor._ Why will you see them particularly _now_?

_Lewis_ [earnestly]. Be so good.

_Counsellor._ Who can look over them now? all incoherent
pieces--thoughts--tracts--odes on despotism--addresses to liberty. It
is not worth while.

_Lewis_ [crossing his arms]. It is a very strange refusal.

_Counsellor_ [offended]. Have I deserved such mistrust?

_Lewis._ Your question would inspire it.

_Counsellor._ Well, well. [Unlocks a pocket-book; and, as he takes out
the papers, slips a small packet into his pocket]. Here--there--and
there--that is all--now look at them.

_Lewis_ [looking at the papers]. Yes, yes, all trifles, it is
true--poetical dreams--philosophical nonsense--you may take them.

_Counsellor._ Your behaviour, I must say, offends me much, and I beg to
be spared in future----

_Lewis._ Why, every body would call me a villain, if I proceeded to act
against my own brother without full conviction--therefore [with great
earnestness] give me that other packet.

_Counsellor_ [thunderstruck]. What--which--what packet?

_Lewis._ That which you took from the rest, and put into your pocket.

_Counsellor._ But--why?

_Lewis._ Out with it!

_Counsellor._ I will----

_Lewis._ Out with it, I say. [Counsellor gives the packet; and, while
Lewis is reading it, endeavours to put on an air of indifference.]

_Lewis_ [reading]. "Original documents relating to my design: one copy
is in my red pocketbook, another in possession of Dr. Arends."----Ha!
now we shall soon see clearly.--[Opens the packet and reads]
"Attestation of Dr. Aarbach, in behalf of my uncle."--"At the gates of
eternity, being still sound in mind though weak in body--in order to
relieve my conscience, I declare that I have given wicked and false
evidence in the case of your uncle, seduced thereto by bribes, as the
inclosed original letters will shew. He was thus declared mad, having
never been so, and is treated like a condemned criminal. Pity his
old-age, save him, and forgive me, and pray to God to forgive me, to
whose righteous judgment I look with deep repentance."----Sig