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Author of “When I Lived In Bohemia,” “The Mysteryof a Hansom Cab,” “The Man Who Vanished,” etc.
THE ISLAND OF FANTASY.
CHAPTER I.
A MIND DISEASED.
It was eight o’clock on a still summer evening, and, theladies having retired, two men were lingering in a pleasant,indolent fashion over their wine in the dining-room of RoylandsGrange. To be exact, only the elder gentleman waspaying any attention to his port, for the young man who satat the head of the table stared vaguely on his empty glass,and at his equal