He was the first who arrived on the spot.
"Enough to frighten you out of your senses, ladies," he said civilly.
"It's a case of suicide, I should say, by the look of it." "For God's sake, let us do something to help him!" Iris burst out.

"I know him! I know him!" Fanny, equal to the emergency, asked Miss Henley for her handkerchief, joined her own handkerchief to it, and began to bandage the wound.

"Try if his pulse is beating," she said quietly to her mistress.

The foreman made himself useful by examining the suicide's pockets.

Iris thought she could detect a faint fluttering in the pulse.