When I had inquired for him some time in vain, he came to me with another man, and asked me to dinner.

So I went, and as there were four of us, of course I could not speak to him then.

He still had the other man, a foreigner--" "Colonel Schmoff, perhaps ?" "Yes; Colonel Schmoff.

He kept Colonel Schmoff by him, so as to guard him from being questioned." "That is so like him.

Everything he does he does with some design--with some little plan.