He doesn't shoot, he doesn't ride--I mean he don't care for pig sticking; he never goes in for any fun there may be on hand; he just works--nothing else; he does not seem to mix with other people; he is the sort of fellow one would say had got some sort of secret connected with him." "If he has, I am certain it is nothing to his personal disadvantage," Mr.Hunter said warmly.

"I have known him for the last six years--I won't say very well, for I don't think anyone does that, except, perhaps, Doctor Wade.

When there was a wing of the regiment up here three years ago he and Bathurst took to each other very much--perhaps because they were both different from other people.

But, anyhow, from what I know of Bathurst I believe him to be a very fine character, though there is certainly an amount of reserve about him altogether unusual.

At any rate, the service is a gainer by it.