There will be more to follow--death or--" but that other alternative he could not bring himself to utter.
Here, however, the doctor was able to reassure him.
"No.

That does not follow." Calder went back to the mess-room and called for a brandy-and-soda.

He was more disturbed by the blow which had fallen upon Durrance than he would have cared to own; and he put the letter upon the table and thought of the message of renunciation which it contained, and he could hardly restrain his fingers from tearing it across.

It must be sent, he knew; its destruction would be of no more than a temporary avail.

Yet he could hardly bring himself to post it.