The liquor was all right, so far as that goes,' he replied.

'The story I heard was this.

It came to me in rather a curious way.

I was in the reading-room at the League this morning looking over a city paper, when I happened to hear your name spoken by one of two gentlemen who sat a little behind me talking in a confidential way, but in a louder key than they imagined.

I could not help hearing what they said.