But it must have been after my time.

I left in '48.' "'I don't think I remember you,' said Jack meditatively.

'But you may have been among the upper boys when I was one of the small ones.' "'Sure to have been,' said Captain Montagu.

'But about this poor fellow.
He was so disappointed when he found I was a stranger to him that I said I'd try to find some other Ryeburn boy who might remember him.

And some one or other mentioned you, so I came over to look you up.' "'Very good of you,' said Jack, who was still, however, feeling so sleepy that he could almost have wished Captain Montagu had _not_ been so good.
'Shall I go back with you to Kadikoi?
Very likely it's some one I did not know either, still one can but try.' "'You're very tired,' said Montagu, sympathisingly.