Do you remember when we sat next to each other in the twilight, the day before you went to India?
We were talking about superstitions then, and you told me that you had only one, and said what it was--you remember ?" "I remember," he said, gravely.
"About someone who had beaten you always, and who you thought always would beat you, if you came in contact again.

You would not tell me his name.

Was it Mr.Carthew ?" "I would not answer the question then, Bertha, and you surely cannot expect me to answer it now." "I do expect you to answer it." "Then I must most emphatically decline to do so," he said.

"What! do you think that if it were he, I would be so base as to discredit him now?
For you must remember that I said that only one of my defeats was due to foul play, that most of the others were simply due to the fact that he was a better man than I was.

The matter has long since been forgotten, and, whoever it is, I would not prejudice him in the opinion of anyone by raising up that old story.