It was not without considerable demur and delay on the part of Sharples that the carpenter and his companion could gain admittance to the round-house. ’ ‘Indeed, I’m beginning to think so,’ he said ruefully. Alcohol— would you believe it?—steadies his nerves and keens his brain: which is against the laws of gravitation, you might say. Rot, no doubt; but we can’t alter it. Then, presto! What a dreary lot they are when the revellers lay aside the motley! Ruth had come from a far South Sea isle. ’ ‘Ah, but there’s the little matter of your presence here,’ said Gerald on a note of apology. Meet me. He was Julian five years younger, the spitting image. ’ ‘The Frenchie? I only knows as how Miss says he will ruin everything. ’ He stopped suddenly, dismay creeping into his face. 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. ‘Mad as hatters!’ ‘It is you who is mad,’ mademoiselle told him crossly. " "With a face as square and flat as a bottle of gin. ‘Maybe not,’ Gerald conceded, ‘but I’m damned if I herald my approach with a lot of unnecessary blundering about in the dark.
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