In the first chapter Sir Percival Wentworth—a Baronet, again ;
the Society of Baronets ought to look to this—throws his wife into the lake, and the wife creeps out, vowing vengeance. In the next chapter the Baronet goes courting a schoolmaster's daughter.
A little further on the wife- shows that she is a hypnotist, and, after this, a locum tenens medical man takes up the detective business. We shall not follow the story any further ; let it
suffice to say that all these people, and others also, are disposed of. Of course a story may be a good one and yet have much bloodshed in it ; but Mrs. Kernahan's manner does not attract.
What can be meant by saying that the wicked Baronet poured brandy" aimlessly into a tumbler and drank it" ? Why " aim- lessly "? The last thing that we hear of him in the chapter is that he "drank himself into unconsciousness." That was " aim" enough.
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