"At least I think I did.

I think that I had seen him before." Here at all events it was clear that she was concealing nothing.

She was obviously as puzzled as Ralston was himself.
"Where had you seen him ?" he asked, and the answer increased his astonishment.
"In Calcutta," she answered.

"It was the same man or one very like him.

I saw him on three successive evenings in the Maidan when I was driving there." "In Calcutta ?" cried Ralston.