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Updated: June 3, 2025
He had not killed himself because he was starving, but because the long struggle of his spirit with the enigma of life had reached its crisis. He had gone out to meet it with a superb gesture of defiance, which had also been the signal of surrender and acknowledgment. The crowd had moved on at last. In the muffled silence and darkness Stonehouse's thoughts became shadowy and fantastic.
It happened to be another of the elder Stonehouse's theories which he had been known to expound eloquently to his creditors that children should be taught the use of money, and at such times as the Stonehouse family prospered Robert's pocket bulged with sums that staggered the very imagination of his followers.
It appeared that she was a Good Woman and the daughter of wealthy and doting parents, and that in all probability West Africa would see Rufus Cosgrave no more. So that was the end of their boyhood. Cosgrave had saved himself or something outside Stonehouse's strength and wisdom had saved him. They would meet again and appear to be old friends.
Then he would have to suggest the real cause . . . He would in this have to trust Mr. Stonehouse's honour for secrecy. But he was worthy of trust. He would, of course, give no name, no clue; but he would put things generally in a way that he could understand. When his mind was so far made up he wanted to finish the matter, so he turned to the wheelhouse and climbed the ladder again.
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