"He got the whole charge of shot in his chest.

He must have died almost instantaneously.

Come; let us go home." They walked side by side in the direction of the avenue for nearly fifty yards without speaking.

Then Dorian looked at Lord Henry and said, with a heavy sigh, "It is a bad omen, Harry, a very bad omen." "What is ?" asked Lord Henry.

"Oh! this accident, I suppose.