Excerpt from The Enchanted: An Authentic Account of the Strange Origin of the New Psychical Club
Mr. Gustavus Adolphus Swann Uncle Gus, he was always called had been a member of the Hailfellows Club, of New York, for twenty years, when he died. The cause of his death was marasmus, the doctors said, or an even wearing out all round. No one knew how old he was, but there were veterans of the street who remembered him as a banker and broker in Jauncey Court fifty years back. He had retired from business, before the speculative times of the war, with a fortune ample for his bachelor wants. Club-life was his passion. He had assisted in launching three or four clubs on the sea whose shores are strewn with wrecks, and all but one had foundered and gone to pieces amid the thunder and lightning of enraged creditors. The Hailfellows, of which he was an original incorporator, was the sole survivor of his ventures in that line.
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