The latter gentleman did full justice to the good things before him; but he drank sparingly, and was visibly annoyed by his companion's intemperance. For the first time a definite doubt possessed him. “I’ve been to hear you lots of times. Now what I want you to feel is this. But no more of that. “Does Mr. ‘By the by, get Trodger to send up one of our best men, will you? Someone discreet. That did not sound like the name the young man had offered in the tower of the water-clock.