"Philpotts."
"Ah! Related to Robert Philpot of Kent?"
"No; no such fine folk in our line. Besides, my name is Philpotts."
"One l and two t's?"
"That same," replied the guard laconically, having no mind to be drawn into too friendly intercourse.
"A droll name!"
"None too droll for many an honest man to bear it."
"Pardon me, I doubt not the honesty; but I question whether there be many Philpottses floating round the world. I never knew but one, and he lived in Somerset."
"Somerset?"