Why don't you try the old 'Oilan,' nearer home?
There's lots of measles and diphtheria about there lately." When the heartbroken John Gale received this epistle, he also received a letter from his uncle, the First Lord of the Admiralty.

"I don't fancy this Damien whim of yours.

If you're really in earnest about killing yourself, why not take a brief trial trip in one of our latest ironclads?
It's just as risky, although--as we are obliged to keep these things quiet in the Office--you will not of course get that publicity your noble soul craves." Abandoned by all in his noble purposes, John Gale took the first steamer to the Isle of Man..