n; he would slap his hand on the table for
            silence all round; he would fly up in a passion of anger at a question,
            or sometimes because none was put, and so he judged the company was not
            following his story. Nor would he allow anyone to leave the inn till he
            had drunk himself sleepy and reeled off to bed.</p>
            <p><a name="id380457"><!--anchor--></a>His stories were what frightened people worst of all. Dreadful stories
            they were—about h