DR. BOURNE QUESTIONING BILL RAWTON, THE GIPSY.
“Have you been a jockey at anytime of your life?”
“I should rather think I had. I might say that I was, in a manner of speaking, brought up on the back of a horse.”
“Oh, that accounts for it. I have heard your name mentioned by some of my sporting and aristocratic patients.”
“And who might they be?” inquired Bill.
“I cannot at the present moment call to mind. You are a single man, eh?”
“I am single now, but I have been married.”
“Ah, I see. Wife dead, I suppose?”
“I haven’t seen her for years, but she may be alive for what I know.”
Then suddenly looking hard at his questioner, he said, in an altered tone—