I followed the bell-boy to a room on the second floor.
"Dr. Fenwick?" he said, as the door was opened.
I saw facing me a tall, slender, dark-complexioned man of about forty-five, a perfect stranger to me.
"I wished to see Count di Penelli," I stammered, in some confusion.
"I am the Count," he answered, courteously.
"But the Count I know is a young man."
"There is no other Count di Penelli."
"Pardon me!" I said, "but a young man calling himself by that name was for two months a fellow boarder of mine."
"Describe him, if you please," said the Count, eagerly.