"Alas, sir, no!"
"Killed in action, likely?"
"He was drowned at sea, after an engagement with a French ship off the mouth of the Clyde."
"And where have you come from, that you travel thus alone?"
"I cannot say."
"Then where are you going to?" asked the ensign.
"I don't know," replied Quentin, sadly.
"Can't say and don't know!" said the captain of the Scots Brigade; "then my advice would be to stay where you are."
"That is not possible."
"You are an odd fellow—quite an enigma," said Monkton, laughing.