There is Mallock, now, who said that life was not worth living.

I called on him only last week, fully expecting him to meet me half-way." "And he didn't ?" "Mallock was a great disappointment," said the stranger, with genuine pain in his voice.
He liked Mallock.
"However," he added, brightening, "his case comes up for hearing at the next meeting.

If I have two-thirds of the vote we proceed with it." "But how do the authorities take it ?" asked Andrew.
"Pooh!" said the stranger.
Andrew, however, could not think so.
"It is against the law, you know," he said.
"The law winks at it," the stranger said.

"Law has its feelings as well as we.

We have two London magistrates and a minister on the executive, and the Lord Chief Justice is an honorary member." Andrew raised his eyes.
"This, of course, is private," continued the stranger.