“But, dear, think! He is your father. She
brought Sebastian’s chloroformed rag up to his face with
her right. She was crushed with a sense of her own terrible impotency. He sat before a desk littered all over with papers
and official looking documents. With a
little more meat on him, he would be handsome. Pitt?"
"Certainly, Sir James, certainly," replied the governor. But—but how?’
‘Can you write?’ Gerald asked, digging into one of his capacious pockets and
bringing out a leather ring purse. Why open my mouth if there might not be a need for it when
all’s said?’
Melusine acknowledged the logic of this. ‘Do not speak of him. 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.
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