He had not registered on board, and he was so ill he gave up the passage.

I could not tell you his name." "Had he a light beard ?" asked the Duke in great alarm.
"Um! yes; a large beard at all events.

I remember how he looked as they carried him past.

He was awfully pale, and his eyes were closed." "My God!" exclaimed the Duke; "it must have been he! Does no one know his name ?" "The captain may.

He would not see you now, just going into port, but I will go and ask him," added the officer kindly, seeing how much distressed the other seemed to be.
"Do--thanks--please ask him--yes!" he ejaculated, and sank into a chair.
The bursar returned in a quarter of an hour.
"I am sorry to say, sir," he said, "that no one seems to have known his name.