ascended
the
stairs.
They
looked
into all
the rooms;
they were
cold,
bare, and
empty.
They
descended
into the
passage,
and thence
into the
cellars
below. The
green damp
hung upon
the low
walls; the
tracks of
the snail
and slug
glistened
in the
light of
the
candle;
but all
was still
as death.
“What do
you think
now?” said
the Jew,
when they
had
regained
the
passage.
“Besides
ourselves,
there’s
not a
creature
in the
house
