"Feversham had asked us there to tell us of his engagement to Miss Eustace.

He had just come back from Dublin.

That was almost the last we saw of him." He took a pull at his cigar and added, "By the way, there was a third man present." "Was there ?" asked Willoughby.

"It's so long ago." "Yes--Trench." "To be sure, Trench was present.

It will be a long time, I am afraid, before we dine at the same table with poor old Trench again." The carelessness of his voice was well assumed; he leaned forwards and struck another match and lighted his pipe.