He will be buried in the
Cypress-hill Cemetery, on Long Island, at his own request; and he
has left sufficient funds for the necessary expenses, and the
payment of his hotel bill, as well as my own small claim against
him. Any surplus which may be left I shall forward to you, when
these payments have been made. I enclose a detailed account of the
case for your satisfaction, and have the honour to be, sir,
"Yours very obediently,
"SILAS WARREN, M.D.
"113 Sixteenth-street, New York,
"May 3, 186--."
This was all.
And Gilbert had to carry these tidings to Marian. For a time he was
almost paralyzed by the blow. He had loved this man as a brother; if he
had ever doubted the strength of his attachment to John Saltram, he knew
it now. But the worst of all was, that one bitter fact--Marian must be
told, and by him.
He went back to the Grange next day. Again and again upon that miserable
journey he acted over the scene which was to take place when he came to
the end of it--in spite of himself, as it were--going over the words he
was to say, while Marian's face rose before him like a picture. How was
he to tell her? Would not the very fact of this desolation coming to her
from his lips be sufficient to make him hateful to her in all the days to
come? More than once upon that journey he was tempted to turn back, and
to leave his dismal news to be told in a letter.
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