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They were all under thirty years of age, which is too soon for any man to possess that knowledge. 'Pilsener? said Spurstow, after the second rubber, mopping his forehead. 'Beer's out, I'm sorry to say, and there's hardly enough soda-water for to-night, said Hummil. 'What filthy bad management! Spurstow snarled. 'Can't help it.
'You take a pill, said Spurstow, who had been watching Hummil's white face narrowly. 'Take a pill, and don't be an ass. That sort of talk is skittles. Anyhow, suicide is shirking your work. If I were Job ten times over, I should be so interested in what was going to happen next that I'd stay on and watch. 'Ah! I've lost that curiosity, said Hummil. 'Liver out of order? said Lowndes feelingly.
Spurstow, you must give me that case to keep; you The voice ceased as the head fell back. 'Not for a good deal, said Spurstow to the unconscious form. 'And now, my friend, sleeplessness of your kind being very apt to relax the moral fibre in little matters of life and death, I'll just take the liberty of spiking your guns.
He has books, pictures, -they were torn from the Graphic, 'and the society of the excellent sub-contractor Jevins, besides the pleasure of receiving us weekly. Hummil smiled grimly. 'Yes, I'm the lucky man, I suppose. Jevins is luckier. 'How? Not 'Yes. Went out. Last Monday. 'By his own hand? said Spurstow quickly, hinting the suspicion that was in everybody's mind.
'By Jove! the last time I heard that song was in '79, or thereabouts, just before I came out. 'Ah! said Spurstow with pride, I was home in '80. And he mentioned a song of the streets popular at that date. Mottram executed it roughly. Lowndes criticised and volunteered emendations. Mottram dashed into another ditty, not of the music-hall character, and made as if to rise.
You aren't half indignant enough over it. 'Not I, said Mottram. 'Poor devil! Did you ever know old Hummy behave like that before or within a hundred miles of it? 'That's no excuse. Spurstow was hacking my shin all the time, so I kept a hand on myself. Else I should have 'No, you wouldn't. You'd have done as Hummy did about Jevins; judge no man this weather.
Spurstow started, dropping the pistol. Hummil stood in the doorway, rocking with helpless laughter. 'That was awf'ly good of you, I'm sure, he said, very slowly, feeling for his words. 'I don't intend to go out by my own hand at present. I say, Spurstow, that stuff won't work. What shall I do? What shall I do? And panic terror stood in his eyes. 'Lie down and give it a chance. Lie down at once.
No one moved. It is not pleasant to face railway journeys at mid-day in June. Spurstow gathered up his hat and whip, and, turning in the doorway, said 'There may be Heaven, there must be Hell. Meantime, there is our life here. We-ell? Neither Mottram nor Lowndes had any answer to the question.
He told the servant that he was going to shoot buck in the morning. Naturally he fumbled with the trigger, and shot himself through the head accidentally. The apothecary sent in a report to my chief, and Jevins is buried somewhere out there. I'd have wired to you, Spurstow, if you could have done anything. 'You're a queer chap, said Mottram.
The man had composed himself as rigidly as a corpse, his hands clinched at his sides. The respiration was too hurried for any suspicion of sleep. Spurstow looked at the set face. The jaws were clinched, and there was a pucker round the quivering eyelids. 'He's holding himself as tightly as ever he can, thought Spurstow. 'What in the world is the matter with him? Hummil!
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