I told the doctor how the officer had shot himself the same day.

The doctor did not turn a hair--and only observed that there were all

sorts of queer fellows in the world.

"There are indeed," I assented.

Yes, someone has said truly of suicides: until they carry out their

design, no one believes them; and when they do, no one regrets them.

Baden, 1870.

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