Have you any other relations ?" "None whatever." "And this newly-arrived cousin, what of him ?" "He was in the navy, and being of a quarrelsome disposition, was court-martialled for some small outbreak.

He would not submit to discipline, and resigned the service.

Then his father died, and Bob went off to South America.

I have never heard of him since.

I know very little about my younger uncle's household.