But Hugo refused to be a doctor, because he could not stand the sight of an operation; and even as a sportsman he never liked to pick up or handle the game he had shot himself; he said it sickened him.

He rushed from that room last night, I feel sure, in a physical horror at the deed he had done; and by now he is as far as he can get from London.

The sight of his act drove him away; not craven fear of an arrest.

If the Le Geyts kill themselves--a seafaring race on the whole--their impulse is to trust to water." "And the other thing ?" "Well, that was about the mountaineer's homing instinct.

I have often noticed it.