It's a great shame if the fellows have told Harris.

But he may have heard some other way." "How could he ?" said I.
"Well, I suppose it was all in the papers at the time," said Hawkesbury.
"Harris would hardly be in the habit of reading newspapers thirteen or fourteen years old," I said, bitterly.
"Was it so long ago as that ?" said Hawkesbury.

"No, it hardly does seem likely.

Somebody must have told him." "It was a blackguard thing of him to do," I said, "and I'll take good care never to speak to him again." "Well, you'd be quite justified in cutting him dead," replied Hawkesbury.

"I'd do the same if he'd done as much to a friend of mine." I did not reply to this.