Cursing himself for his inertness, Jack soon shook off this drowsiness, and set to work in earnest. " "Why, that must be about the time of the Great Storm," rejoined Jackson. Nothing disheartened by this survey, Jack set to work upon the lock, which he attacked with all his implements;—now attempting to pick it with the nail;— now to wrench it off with the bar: but all without effect. In a fit of despondency, superinduced by drunkenness, he made away with himself; and when the body was discovered, after a lapse of some months, such was the impression produced by the spectacle —such the alarm occasioned by the crazy state of the building, and, above all, by the terror inspired by strange and unearthly noises heard during the night, which were, of course, attributed to the spirit of the suicide, that the place speedily enjoyed the reputation of being haunted, and was, consequently, entirely abandoned. " With this, he struck the door a heavy blow. Do you hear me, Sir? Won't you stir!" "Not a step," replied Langley, gruffly. “My mind is full of confused stuff,” he said at length. “Have you dropped from the skies?” Sydney asked wonderingly. But the indecision, which had been fatal to his race, was fatal to him. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have to tell my part in it all, too. Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation methods and addresses. Perhaps marriage hurt. ’ He looked the girl up and down. "Ruth?" Silence for a moment.
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