At dinner he found himself placed next to his namesake.
"It is curious, our having the same name," the other remarked, as he sat down.

"It is not a very common one." "No, I have not met anyone of the same name, before," Stanley said.
"Indeed, until the affair at Ramoo I was nearly three years trading with an uncle of mine, up the rivers; and was not much in the way of falling in with white men.

But, before that, I had been with my father in a good many stations in India; but I do not, as far as I can remember, recollect meeting anyone of the same name." "Then your father was in the service, too ?" "Yes.

He was a captain in the 15th Native Infantry." "Indeed," the other said in surprise, "then we are connections.

But I had no idea that Captain Brooke was ever married." "He was married just after he came out to India," Stanley said; "so it is likely enough that you would never have heard of it.