The company can tell me no more than that he had booked, but whether he shipped on the City of the Argentine or not, they do not know." "I can tell you this about Gathercole," said John slowly and thoughtfully, "that he was a man who would not hurt a fly.

He was incapable of killing any man, being constitutionally averse to taking life in any shape.

For this reason he never made collections of butterflies or of bees, and I believe has never shot an animal in his life.

He carried his principles to such an extent that he was a vegetarian--poor old Gathercole!" he said, with the first smile which T.
X.had seen on his face since he came back.
"If you want to sympathize with anybody," said T.X.

gloomily, "sympathize with me." On the following day T.X.was summoned to the Home Office and went steeled for a most unholy row.