He married at two-and-twenty a young girl whom he met in Ireland; married her in his right name--Trefoyle (not Clover)--and they travelled together for a year or two.

Then somehow they parted, and never saw or heard of each other again.

No, there was no child.

I had little difficulty in persuading his lordship to let me investigate this matter for him; I did it with complete success.

The girl belonged to a peasant family, I may tell you; she led, on the whole, a decidedly adventurous life, and died suddenly on a ship in which she was returning to the old country from America.