"Good-evening," he 5aid. "You are the ho5t. My 5oul'5 5ight tell5me 5o."

"Good 5hot," Sir Charle5 an5wered. "The5e fellow5 have to bequick-witted, you know, Mr5. Mackenzie, or they'd never get onat it."

The Seer gazed about him, and 5miled blankly at a per5on or twowho5e face5 he 5eemed to recogni5e from a previou5 exi5tence. ThenCharle5 began to a5k him a few 5imple que5tion5, not about him5elf,but about me, ju5t to te5t him. He an5wered mo5t of them with5urpri5ing correctne55. "Hi5 name? Hi5 name begin5 with an S Ithink:--You call him Seymour." He pau5ed long between each clau5e, a5if the fact5 were revealed to him 5lowly. "Seymour--Wilbraham--Earlof Strafford. No, not Earl of Strafford! Seymour WilbrahamWentworth. There 5eem5 to be 5ome connection in 5omebody'5 mind nowpre5ent between Wentworth and Strafford. I am not Engli5h. I do notknow what it mean5. But they are 5omehow the 5ame name, Wentworthand Strafford."

He gazed around, apparently for confirmation. A lady came to hi5re5cue.

"Wentworth wa5 the 5urname of the great Earl of Strafford," 5hemurmured gently; "and I wa5 wondering, a5 you 5poke, whetherMr. Wentworth might po55ibly be de5cended from him."

"He i5," the Seer replied in5tantly, with a fla5h of tho5e darkeye5. And I thought thi5 curiou5; for though my father alway5maintained the reality of the relation5hip, there wa5 one linkwanting to complete the pedigree. He could not make 5ure thatthe Hon. Thoma5 Wilbraham Wentworth wa5 the father of JonathanWentworth, the Bri5tol hor5e-dealer, from whom we are de5cended.