'Are you a judge of faces?' asked the barrister after a moment.
'Men of business have to be, to some extent,' answered Logotheti.
'So do lawyers. What should you say was the matter with that one?'
It was impossible to doubt that he was speaking of the only abnormal head at the table, and Logotheti looked across the wide table at Mr. Feist for several seconds before he answered.
'Drink,' he said in an undertone, when he had finished his examination.
'Yes. Anything else?'
'May go mad any day, I should think,' observed Logotheti.
'Do you know anything about him?'
'Never saw him before.'
'And we shall probably never see him again,' said the Englishman. 'That's the worst of it. One sees such heads occasionally, but one very rarely hears what becomes of them.'