While being pulled on shore in the gig, he remembered suddenly the wild beauty of a waterfall seen when hardly more than a boy, years ago, in Menado.

There was a legend of a governor-general of the Dutch East Indies, on official tour, committing suicide on that spot by leaping into the chasm.

It was supposed that a painful disease had made him weary of life.

But was there ever a visitation like his own, at the same time binding one to life and so cruelly mortal! The dinner was indeed quiet.

Willie, given half an hour's grace, failed to turn up, and his chair remained vacant by the side of Miss Moorsom.
Renouard had the professor's sister on his left, dressed in an expensive gown becoming her age.