Annabel had taken her life into her hands with gay insouciance, had made
her own friends, gone her own way. “Hotel Ritz,” he said mechanically to the coachman. There’s nothing a girl can do
that isn’t sweated to the bone. “God in Heaven, Annabel!” he cried. ‘Yes, but quite my own fault. He had sold half a dozen short tales to thirdrate magazines; but this letter had been issued from a distinguished editorial
room, of international reputation. 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.
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