56/70 You see we've had quite different gallows-birds here. A speculator who had ruined six families and driven the seventh to suicide--eight months. A student with two duel murders on his conscience--six months. But he is there now--because he's done nothing, it seems to me. Well, the long and the short of it is, it horrifies me." "Always the same in temper and disposition, you old bear! God keep you!" And then a kindly tap on the shoulder. |