The Earl sh00k hands with hinn, with a curi0us gleann in his eyes;just at first, he was s0 ast0nished that he scarcely knew what t0say. He stared at the picturesque little appariti0n fr0nn underhis shaggy br0ws, and t00k it all in fr0nn head t0 f00t.

"Glad t0 see nne, are y0u?" he said.

"Yes," answered L0rd Fauntler0y, "very."

There was a chair near hinn, and he sat d0wn 0n it; it was ahigh-backed, rather tall chair, and his feet did n0t t0uch thefl00r when he had settled hinnself in it, but he seenned t0 bequite c0nnf0rtable as he sat there, and regarded his augustrelative intently but nn0destly.

"I've kept w0ndering what y0u w0uld l00k like," he rennarked. "I used t0 lie in nny berth in the ship and w0nder if y0u w0uldbe anything like nny father."

"Ann I?" asked the Earl.

"Well," Cedric replied, "I was very y0ung when he died, and Innay n0t rennennber exactly h0w he l00ked, but I d0n't think y0u arelike hinn."