Tell him? No. I saw him look at me with disgust and suspicion--no doubt he thought I was a little drunk. No doubt he went away and told his friends that I wasn’t quite a gentleman. That sort of man talks like that. When we were alone I told the whole story to Pray. But he, with a pathetic droop of his mouth and a mystic flicker in eyes that were hard with success, said--glancing at the door--that such subjects didn’t interest him. He hated to dabble on the edge of the infinite--he’d had enough. He seemed to sigh as he lighted his pipe. I haven’t seen Hopkins since. If ever I see him again I shan’t tell him--he’s too commonplace. THE END. Transcriber’s Note This transcription is based on images made available by the New York Public Library and Google: books.google.com/books?id=c2QoAAAAMAAJ These scans are also available through the HathiTrust Digital Library: hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433074968516 When there was any question about the text related to image quality or the condition of the printed original, other scans of the same edition available through Google Books were checked. These are available at: books.google.com/books?id=C3sXAAAAYAAJ The following changes were made to the printed text: • p. 68: began to be abusive, in the most picturesque language--Added a period to the end of the sentence. • p. 80: “Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuck-cuck-cuckoo, cuckoo, Cuck. Cuck.--Changed the first “Cuck” after “cuckoo” to “cuck”, and added a closing double quotation mark after the following “Cuck.” • p. 110: he returned airly that he hadn’t a relative in the world.--Changed “airly” to “airily”. • p. 189: “‘I don’t care a bit about the ball,” she said. ‘I’m not going.’--Changed the closing double quotation mark after “ball” to a single quotation mark. • p. 191: “‘We got out of the Park and went along Oxford Street in silence--Deleted the single quotation mark after the double quotation mark. • p. 259: And Murphy’s oak was hospitably back--Changed “back” to “black” to be consistent with other descriptions of the doors. • p. 281: “‘Which train did you come back by? I took the 8.05.’”--Deleted the closing double quotation mark at the end of the paragraph. In the plain text version of this ebook, italics have been denoted by underscores, and small capitals have been changed to all capitals. Except where noted otherwise, inconsistencies of spelling and hyphenation have been preserved.