I am not a rich man, but serious though the monetary loss would be to me, I should settle the matter out of court, were I not positive that I had right on my side." To which Ocock returned a quick: "Oh, quite so ...

of course." Like his old father, he was a short, heavily built man; but there the likeness ended.

He had a high, domed forehead, above a thin, hooked nose.

His skin was of an almost Jewish pallor.

Fringes of straight, jet-black hair grew down the walls of his cheeks and round his chin, meeting beneath it.