He can get the date of that from the tombstone, if he wants it." "Thanks; I'll look at it," said the tutor with aggravating cheerfulness.
"You went up to London, didn't you ?" "I've told you so, and that I lived there with a man called Fastnet." "And then you went abroad, I think you said ?" "Yes; to India." "Just so; that's where you died, is it not?
You stayed in London long enough to go to the dogs, I understood you to say ?" "That didn't take long.

I spent all my money in six months, and then enlisted," said Ratman, feeling fairly launched by this time.
"Quite so.

And you died, I believe, in India ?" "I was supposed to have died in a skirmish; and they sent news home that I had.

I never corrected it." "Whereabouts was the skirmish, if it's a fair question ?" "On the frontier.

I forget the name." "That's unfortunate.