"There's only one man I'd rather meet!" The little man laughed.

"Oh, you and your Montdidier are still inseparable, I suppose! How are you, Fred?
I'm glad to see you.

Who are your friends ?" At that minute out came the collector from his office--stood on the step, and stared.

Fred introduced us to Courtney, and I experienced the thrill of shaking hands with the man accounts of whose exploits had fired my schoolboy imagination and made stay-at-home life forever after an impossibility.
"I missed the steamer, Fred.

Not another for a week.