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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3201, 31 December 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

Thus the " something else" was not a pleasant subject to dwell upon, an<l so he returned to his " great idea," which the more he thought about it seemed the more attractive and plausible. It ended in his sending- a document by the hands of the Club Commissionaire to the office of The Times. Then he went home to the dull little house in St. James's; and next morning when his middleaged man-servant brought him, as usual, The Times with his tea and toast, Le found only one paragraph which was to him of the slightest degree of interest. This ran as follows : WANTED — A Gentleman (middle-aged), of refined tastes, to accompany the advertiser on a three months' Continental tour. Apptv personally or by letter to C. 8., 90a, Duchess-street, St. James's, W. It was the evening of the day on which Mr. Buckle's advertisement appeared, and Lieutenant Charles Sotkeran, a good-looking, c-urly-headed youngster, who was passing the night in town on his way to Aldershot in the morning, found himself the sole occupant of the billiard-room of the Junior Tatters. At fust he was not unfavourably impressed by his unwonted loneliness. He was full of high spirits, satisfied with the world and himself, and en-gaged to be married to a girl whom he, of courso, regarded as the loveliest and most charming of her sex. So brimful was he of self-congratulation that he must needs begin to drink his own health ; and as he had already hud a bottle of "extra sec" with his dinner, the consequence of this amusement was that in a very short space of time the speeches he