15/29 Nearly slipped my memory, all the same. He said one of you had known him in his better days, at--Oxford, was it ?" "What name ?" asked Charles. "He seemed to think you would remember him." "Stephens," said Charles, reflectively. "Stephens! I once had a valet of that name, and a very good one he was, who left my service rather abruptly, taking with him numerous portable memorials of myself, including a set of diamond studs. I endeavored at the time to keep up my acquaintance with him; but he took measures effectually to close it. |