In the Metropolitan Club, sheets moist from the press suddenly descended like a fall of snow.

Rolfe stood by a window and read quietly.

This first report told him little that he had not already learnt, but there were a few details of the suicide.
Frothingham, it appeared, always visited the office of _Stock and Share_ on the day before publication.

Yesterday, as usual, he had looked in for half an hour at three o'clock; but unexpectedly he came again at seven in the evening, and for a third time at about eleven, when the printing of the paper was in full swing.

'It was supposed by the persons whom he then saw that Mr.Frothingham finally quitted the office; whether he actually left the building or not seems to remain uncertain.