I know that yours is Stanley.

I vote that we call each other by them.

We are cousins, you know, and I suppose that as you are my heir, you must be my nearest male relation, at present; so I vote that we call each other by our Christian names, instead of Brookeing each other, always." "I shall be very glad to do so," Stanley said, cordially.

"I hope that we shall be close friends, as well as distant relations." Then, as there was a momentary lull in the conversation, Harry raised his voice and said to the colonel: "A very curious thing has just happened, Colonel.

Brooke and myself have just discovered that we are cousins and, what is still more curious, that if anything happens to me, he takes my place as next heir to my uncle, a fact of which he was entirely ignorant." "That is certainly a very curious coincidence, Brooke; very singular.