" "You did see him then ?" I said with some curiosity.
"I did.

Strange, isn't it?
It was only once, but as I sat with the distressed Fyne who had suddenly resuscitated his name buried in my memory with other dead labels of the past, I may say I saw him again, I saw him with great vividness of recollection, as he appeared in the days of his glory or splendour.

No! Neither of these words will fit his success.

There was never any glory or splendour about that figure.

Well, let us say in the days when he was, according to the majority of the daily press, a financial force working for the improvement of the character of the people.