CHAPTER XVI

IN WHICH ADAM PROPOSES A GAME "To be or not to be." Bellew leaned against the mighty bole of "King Arthur," and stared up at the moon with knitted brows. "That is the question!--whether I shall brave the slings, and arrows and things, and--speak to-night, and have done with it--one way or another, or live on awhile, secure in this uncertainty. To wait? Whether I shall, at this so early stage, pit all my chances of happiness against the chances of--losing her, and with her--Small Porges, bless him! and all the q…