"You might almost as well say 'Southern Asia.' Have you any idea in what part of it ?" "Not the least.

I have told you all I know.

I should be glad to know more; but for the present it is quite enough for my purpose.

I intend to call upon Mr.Fortescue." It is hardly necessary to say that I had no such intention, for having neither a "position in the county," as the phrase goes, a house of my own, nor any official connection with the hunt, a call from me would probably have been regarded, and rightly so, as a piece of presumption.

As it happened, however, I not only called on Mr.Fortescue before the secretary, but became his guest, greatly to my surprise, and, I have no doubt, to his, although he was the indirect cause; for had he not bought Ranger, it is very unlikely that I should have become an inmate of his house.
It came about in this way.