If I know anything of Roger, he will find it out for himself, whether you like it or not." "Nice thing to be a family doctor," growled Dr Brandram, "and have charge of the family skeletons.

Between you and me, Armstrong, I was never quite satisfied about the story of the boy's death abroad.

The old man said he had had news of it, and that was all anybody, even the poor mother, ever got out of him." "Really, Brandram," said the tutor, "you are a most uncomfortable person.

I wish you would not make me a party to these mysteries.

I don't like them, they are upsetting." "Well, well, old fellow," replied the doctor, "whatever it was once, it's no mystery now; for the poor fellow has long ago made good his right to an inscription on the tombstone.