But you see I lost him in the Strand, after all." "But the other, then," Andrew asked, "who was he ?" "Oh, I picked him up at Charing Cross.

He was better dead." "I think," said Andrew, hopefully, "that my estimate of the sacredness of human life is sufficiently high for your purpose.

If that is the only point--" "Ah, they all say that until they join.

I remember an excellent young man who came among us for a time.

He seemed discreet beyond his years, and we expected great things of him.