14/65 Why should he do that if he means--to commit suicide ?" I hated to utter the words before that broken soul; but there was no way out of it. "How do you know he has run away ?" she asked. "Are you not taking it for granted that, if he meant suicide, he would blow his brains out in his own house? They are gentle-natured folk; they would never blow their brains out or cut their throats. For all we know, he may have made straight for Waterloo Bridge,"-- she framed her lips to the unspoken words, unseen by Mrs.Mallet,--"like his uncle Alfred." "That is true," I answered, lip-reading. |