Then I was obliged to leave the Service and went down to Yarleys after my father's death--it's mine now, you know, but worth nothing except a shooting rent, which just pays for the repairs.

There I met Champers-Haswell, who lives near and is a kind of distant cousin of mine--my mother was a Champers--and happened to mention the thing to him.

He took it up at once and introduced me to Aylward, and the end of it was, that they offered me a partnership with a small share in the business, because they said I was just the man they wanted." "Just the man they wanted," repeated the editor after him.

"Yes, the last of the Vernons, an engineer with an old name in his county, a clean record and plenty of ability.

Yes, you would be just the man they wanted.