AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVEKY 363 dropped a portion of his name, intending to resume it when he had done something that even his family could not consider was any discredit to it. I was myself unaware of the fact until, on returning to Omdurman from Hebbeh, I opened those papers. I continued to bear the name by which I am known, but as you are good enough to say that you will mention me in despatches, I feel that I can now say that my real name is Gregory Hilliard Hartley.” quite appreciate your motives in adhering to your former name, Mr. Hartley, and in mentioning your services under your new name I will add a note saying that your name mentioned in former despatches for distinguished services had been erroneously given as Gregory Hilliard only.”

“ Thank you very much, sir ! ” That evening, when several of the officers were gathered in Colonel Wingate’s hut, the latter said, when one of them addressed Gregory as “ Hilliard ” : That is not his full name. Colonel Hickman. For various family reasons, with which he has acquainted me, he has borne it hitherto, but he will in future be known by his entire name, which is Gregory Hilliard Hartley. I may say that the reasons he has given me for not having hitherto used the family name are in my opinion amply sufficient, involving, as they do, no discredit to himself or his father, a brave gentleman who escaped from the massacre of Hicks’s force at El Obeid, and finally died with Colonel Stewart at Hebbeh.”

“ I seem to know the name,” Colonel Lewis said. “ Gregory Hilliard Hartley ! I have certainly either heard or seen it somewhere. May I ask if your father bore the same Christian names ? ” “Yes, sir.”

“I have it now ! ” Colonel Lewis exclaimed a minute or two later. “I have seen it in an advertisement. Ever since I was a boy that name has occasionally been advertised for. Every two or three months it appeared in the Times. I can