-swept Gehenna? Why, with
all the rest of England at his disposal, had he chosen to spend a week
at breezy, blighted Bingley?

Simply because he had been disappointed in love.

Nothing is more curious than the myriad ways in which reaction from an
unfortunate love-affair manifests itself in various men. No two males
behave in the same way under the spur of female fickleness.
_Archilochum_, for instance, according to the Roman writer, _proprio
rabies armavit iambo_. It is no good pretending out of politeness that
you know what that means, so I will translate. _Rabies_--his
grouch--_armavit_--armed--_Archilochum_--Archilochus--_iambo_--with the
iambic--_proprio_--his own invention. In other words, when the poet
Archilochus was handed his hat by the lady of his affections, he
consoled himself by going off and writing satirical verse about her in a
new metre which he had thought up immediately after leaving the house.
That was the way the thing affected him.

On the other hand, we read in a recent issue of a London daily paper
that John Simmons (31), a meat-salesman, was accused of assaulting an
officer while in the discharge of his duty, at the same time using
profane language whereby the officer went in fear of his life. Constable
Riggs deposed that on the evening of the eleventh instant while he was
on his beat, prisoner accosted him and, after offering to fight him for
fourpence, drew off his right boot and threw it at his head. Accused,
questioned by the magistrate, admitted the charge and expressed regret,
pleading that he had had words with his young woman, and it had upset
him.

Neither of these courses appealed to Samuel Marlowe. He had sought
relief by slinking off alone to the Hotel Magnificent at
Bingley-on-the-Sea. It was the same spirit which has often moved other
men in similar circumstances to go off to the Rockies to shoot
grizzlies.

To a certain extent the Hotel Magnificent had dulled the pain. At any
rate, the service and cooking there had done much to take his mind off
it. His heart still ached, but he felt equal to going to London and
seeing his father, which of course he ought to have done seven days
before.

He rose from his bench--he had sat down on it directly after
breakfast--and went back to the hotel to inquire about trains. An hour
later he had begun his journey and two hours after that he was at the
door of his father's office.

The offices of the old-established firm of Marlowe, Tho