It reached her only slowly that Ann Veronica was standing to her resolution. ’ ‘And why are you not married,’ she demanded suddenly, ‘if it is that you have land?’ Gerald grimaced. Spurlock sat limply, his arms hanging. "It can't be Captain Sheppard!" "It is," replied Jack; "and you had better have met the devil on your road than me. "I do," replied Kneebone. She spoke with a certain odd deliberation carefully chosen words which fell like drops of ice upon the man who sat listening. " So saying, he scrambled over the rubbish, and got into the chimney. Even then it sent Spurlock spinning backward, to crash against the wall. She deserves what has befallen her. 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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