9/14 And a bonnet to match, which everybody stared at, because it was not half the size of the big bonnets then in fashion. There was no mistaking the strange dress or the tall figure, when I saw her again in the student's room. So I paid the bet." "Do you remember the name of the man who refused to pay ?" "His name was Egisto Baccani." "Have you heard anything of him since ?" "Yes. He got into some political scrape, and took refuge, like the rest of them, in England; and got his living, like the rest of them, by teaching languages. He sent me his prospectus--that's how I came to know about it." "Have you got the prospectus ?" "Torn up, long ago." Mr.Mool wrote down the name in his pocket-book. |