Why not?" "No reason at all," Kelson answered, except that I don't remember to have seen you out with the Cumberbatch.

A big, dark fellow, probably a stranger to you, but by way of being a former follower of the Cumberbatch.

But neither of us imbibed a particularly high opinion of the sportsman, did we, Hugh?" "No," Gifford assented; "his was not a taking character, to men at any rate; and we rather wondered how he came to be going to the Cumberbatch Ball.

He came down to the Cumberbatch Hunt Ball, which I understand was held in this house, and from that evening seems to have mysteriously disappeared.