Talleyrand Maxim eBook

"It''s old Mr. Bartle, sir," he whispered. "He''s in your room there -- dead " "Dead?" exclaimed Eldrick. "Dead " Pratt shook his head again. "He came up not so long after you''d gone, sir," he said. "Everybody had gone but me -- I was just going. Wanted to see you about something I don''t know what. He was very tottery when he came in -- complained of the stairs and the fog. I took him into your room, to sit down in the easy chair. And -- he died straight off. Just," concluded Pratt, "just as if he was going quietly to sleep "