Yet he stays. He listened. He learnt that his sister was privately married—the name or rank of her husband could not be ascertained—and living in retirement in an obscure dwelling in the Borough, where she had given birth to a son. . It’s well hidden, miss. Look in the small hide-bound book that he keeps in his boot. "If," interrupted Jackson, changing his tone: "he does live. I thought I'd been sufficiently explicit," continued Jonathan. He was carelessly dressed, and there were marks of unrest upon his features.