The man hesitated a moment.
“Where is Lovelace?” I asked again; “I wish to see him before I leave.”
“Lovelace, sir? Monsieur will not betray my confidence?”
“No, no. What is it? What has happened?”
“We have orders not to speak of it. But Lovelace was found dead in his bedroom an hour ago. He has shot himself.”
INTO DUST
JASON and Artemis had been married only two years when they learned, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the sickness from which Jason had for some time been suffering was consumption. They were both young and very brave; nevertheless, they bowed their heads in resignation. Jason was doomed. Three brothers and sister had already died of the disease; consumption had killed his mother and his paternal grandfather. Decay had been poured into his blood-vessels by both father and mother, and there was no course open to him but to submit to Fate.