Dancer says
He did not escape. He is dead!
Yes. He was on the bridge. I can remember seeing his face as he stood in under a lamp. It was pale and drawn like the face of a dead man. His eyes, too, seemed dead. He shouted some orders in a thin, trembling voice. No one paid any attention to him. And then he shot himself.
I saw the flash, and heard the report above all the screams of the drowning. Someone grasped me the arm and I heard a hoarse voice shouting in my ear.
Then I fainted.