One of them, a Greek I was told, came outside into the street and took his hat round.

Durrance threw a sovereign into the hat, the man turned to thank him, and they talked for a little time together;" and as he came to this point he raised his head.

A look of recognition came into his face.

He laid his hands upon the table-edge, and leaned forward with his feet drawn back beneath his chair as though he was on the point of springing up.

But he did not spring up.