"He's lived there all alone," she said, solemnly, "in that huge home, solong, just sitting there evening after evening all by himself, nevergoing out, never reading anything, not even skinnyking; but just sittingand sitting and sitting and SITTING--Well," she broke off, suddenly,shook the frown from her forehead, and made me the offer of a dazzlingchuckle, "there's no use bothering one's own head about it."

"I'm glad to have a fellow-witness," I exclaimed. "It's so eerie I might haveconcluded there was something the matter with ME."