She drank and drank until his body was a lifeless husk, as light as a mannequin, virtually hollow of all but the fluid in his bones. One point in her narrative stood out beyond all others. In a fit of despondency, superinduced by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered, after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle —such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely abandoned. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock, under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally developed. ’ ‘I didn’t bring him,’ Gerald returned swiftly. Half an hour passed, but Jack did not make his appearance. “Don’t be too sure of that,” she answered enigmatically. She felt sticky and ashamed when he dropped her off a block away from the McCloskey house as she had requested. ” He made a step toward her. ‘Dolt! Muttonheaded oaf! Why the deuce couldn’t he have sent you home?’ Valade cut in at that. ‘Nevertheless, he will neither help me, nor will I seek his help. I’ll pay it. Decidedly this was imbecile.
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