Alcohol— would you believe it?—steadies his nerves and keens his brain: which is against the laws of gravitation, you might say. Brendon was silent. Was there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going astray. “Everything goes on, confound it! One doesn’t change anything one has set going by making good resolutions. Then her head disappeared suddenly in her hands, and her shoulders shook violently. The air was sweet with the smoky perfume of myrrh, hazy and dense with incense. His gaze drawn, Gerald watched him dip to pick up a crushed square of white linen and a starched object that resembled a helmet. The foremost, tall, clean-shaven, perfectly groomed, half extended his hand with a smile of recognition. If I’d known, there would have been a different story. The roofs and gables of many of the houses had been torn off. It was the beginning of June. 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. ‘I can’t do that.
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