2/17 It is for his sake that I asked. My friend is an old man, and it might concern him unduly--even alarm him. I promise you there shall be nothing that could cause him anxiety in our silence, or at which he could take umbrage." "Go on, sir!" said Adam simply. I know it, for we were boys together. He has led an uneventful and somewhat self-contained life, so that any such condition of things as has now arisen is apt to perplex him from its very strangeness. |