17/19 Atcheson was a friend of yours, wasn't he ?" "Of course! He was at Eton with me. It was I who first brought him here to dine. Don't tell me that anything has happened to Jim Atcheson!" "This dispatch is from him," Lord Dorminster replied, indicating the pile of manuscript upon the table,--"a dispatch which came into my hands in a most marvellous fashion. He died last week in a nursing home in--well, let us say a foreign capital. |