Well, here we are; now we will have a quiet cheroot and a peg, to quiet our nerves after all that din, before we turn in.

Let us get off our coats and collars, and make ourselves comfortable; it is a proof of the bestial stupidity of mankind that they should wear such abominations as dress clothes in a climate like this.

Here, boy, light the candles and bring two sodas and brandies." "Well, Bathurst," he went on, when they had made themselves comfortable in two lounging chairs, "what do you thing of Miss Hannay ?" "I was prepared to admire her, Doctor, from what you said; it is not very often that you overpraise things; but she is a charming girl, very pretty and bright, frank and natural." "She is all that," the Doctor said.

"We were four months on the voyage out, and I saw enough of her in that time to know her pretty thoroughly." "What puzzles me about her," Bathurst said, "is that I seemed to know her face.

Where I saw her, and under what circumstances, I have been puzzling myself half the evening to recall, but I have the strongest conviction that I have met her." "You are dreaming, man.