David Vavasour Williams.

I took him on in--let me see?
I think it was in 1895 or early 1896.

But how did you hear about him ?" _Vivie_: "Never mind, or never mind for the moment.

Tell me some more about him." _Praed_: "Well to sum him up briefly he was what school boys and subalterns would call 'a rotter.' Not without an almost mordid cleverness; but the Welsh strain in him which in the father turned to emotional religion--the father was Vicar or Rector of Pontystrad--came out in the boy in unhealthy fancies.

He had almost the talent of Aubrey Beardsley.