"I happen to have heard a good deal about him.

But what ails you at him ?" "Oh, small things," and the man laughed.

"You know I am getting elderly and cranky, and I like a man to be very fair and four-square.

I confess I never got to the bottom of the chap.

He was a capital sportsman, good bridge-player, head like a rock for liquor, and all that; but I'm hanged if he didn't seem to me to be playing some sort of game.