CHAPTER XI.
That evening, after dining alone, the Doctor went in to Bathurst's.
The latter had already heard the news, and they talked it over for some time.

Then the Doctor said, "Have you seen Forster, Bathurst, since he arrived ?" "No, I was out when he left his card.

I was at school with him..

I heard when I was in England that he was out here in the native cavalry, but I have never run across him before, and I own I had no wish to do so.

He was about two years older than I was, and was considered the cock of the school.