'Because they were never to meet again. Mr. George was killed in a fight with the savages six months after he went away. I remember the letter coming that brought the news one fine summer evening. The Squire was standing in this hall, just by that window, when Miles, the old butler, gave him the letter. He just read the beginning of it, and fell down as if he had been struck dead. It was his first stroke of apoplexy, and he was never quite the same afterwards, though he was a wonderful old gentleman to the last.' END OF VOL. I. J. AND W. RIDER, PRINTERS, LONDON. Transcriber's Note Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation have been standardized but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged. Contents to Volume I: Page number for Chapter XIII corrected. End of Project Gutenberg's A Strange World, Volume 1 (of 3), by M. E. Braddon