At times he accepts help--even solicits it--from his more prosperous relations, and at times he won't speak to us.

But of one thing I am perfectly convinced, and that is that there is no man in the world who would be less likely to make away with himself.

He has a nervous horror of death or pain of any sort, and in his peculiar way he is much too fond of life ever to dream of voluntarily shortening it.

On the other hand, he is always doing eccentric things.

He probably set out to walk to London--I have known him do it before--and will turn up there in a fortnight's time." Mr.Raymond Greene seemed rather to resent having cold water poured upon his melodramatic imaginings.