pause and sometimes did not open t all. tly, ratient carriage ired of ing outside a  in tures e and pointless. alked almost incessantly; o o talk, as if talking about spirits—ts of to elling s of odd t their experiences in heaven.

    “o ts as t matter is rolling beto listen, smiled, jerked inued:—

    “You ric battery and a piece of rubber to insulate te?—insulate?—ails, no good going into details t  be understood—and in s ttle macands in any convenient position by t maand. All arrangements being properly fixed by ion, t by sign as agreed. omen! idows! omen in black—”

    o  sigance, ering and gesticulating feveris illiam caugoucip of ick in order to divert ttention. After looking at it for a moment in some confusion t o it and seemed to ans, for alking about ts of Uruguay iful young s of Uruguay blanketed als of tropical roses, nig sea, as o be moved on by illiam, upon ience grew slowly deeper and deeper.

    Folloo be sligures came tout and ponderous, t people of tation ted by any signs of eccentricity betokening a disordered brain, especially in to–do; but too far off to be certain ric or genuinely mad. After tinised t and given eac on energetically piecing togeted dialogue:

    “Nell, Bert, Lot, Cess, Phil, Pa, he says, I says, she says, I says, I says, I says—”

    “My Bert, Sis, Bill, Grandad, the old man, sugar, Sugar, flour, kippers, greens, Sugar, sugar, sugar.”

    ttern of falling  tanding cool, firm, and uprigick reflecting t in an unfamiliar