He made notes, and took down the particulars of the death.
Just finished his usual quantity, a bottle of ale and four drams.

The girl at the bar saw him quickly stretch out his hand--had the impression that he wanted another dram--and when he slowly sank down from his chair, supposed that he was drunk.

Used never to be so drunk that he could not walk or stand, at any rate by supporting himself or holding on to convenient, firm things.
This last piece of evidence was deposed to by several of the regular customers, or as they were described in the police report--"Several of the regular visitors to the refreshment-room, whose testimony may be considered as thoroughly reliable." Several of these silent, somewhat tottering, figures who had been thus aroused from their dull, Saturday evening drowsiness, had already disappeared from the scene.

Bottles and glasses remained standing with their contents.
"Might there not possibly be some other direct or indirect cause ?" It was at first hesitatingly that Mrs.Selvig could think of anything of the sort.
Unwilling as she was to go to extremes with an old, regular customer, she yet had been obliged this evening to give him to understand that whatever he required in future must be paid for in cash.

His bill had now, after all the years he had enjoyed credit in the tap-room, grown so enormous, that she, a widow with two daughters, could no longer feel justified in letting it run on.