The sun shone full on him, lighting up his bright face and curly head.

I thought as I looked, "Where could one find his equal ?"--_Sans peur et sans reproche_--"matchless for gentleness, honesty, and courage," and felt, as the vision faded from me, that I should never see another like him.

And I never did.
Little, however, did I dream in what strange way I was next to meet Charlie Newcome..