Dredge's

If he did not describe the young man as his predestined Huxley, it was because any such comparison between himself and his great predecessors would have been repugnant to his taste; but he evidently felt that it would be Dredge's role to reveal him to posterity.

The Debt 1909

I happened to be staying at the Lanfears 'when the boys arrived, and I shall never forget Dredge's first appearance on the scene.

The Debt 1909

There could be no question of Dredge's going back to "teach school" at East Lethe.

The Debt 1909

But gradually I put together their fragmentary charges, and learned that Dredge's lectures were turning into an organized assault on his master's doctrine.

The Debt 1909

THE third winter I was off collecting in Central America, and didn't get back till Dredge's course had been going for a couple of months.

The Debt 1909

A slight redness rose through Dredge's sallow skin.

The Debt 1909

Dredge's hypothesis will be contested, may one day be disproved; but at least it has swept out of the way all previous conjectures, including of course Lanfear's magnificent attempt; and for our generation of scientific investigators it will serve as the first safe bridge across a murderous black whirlpool.

The Debt 1909

FROM that day Dredge's progress continued steadily.

The Debt 1909

Dredge's mind takes in only a bit at a time, but the bit stays, and other bits are joined to it, in a hard mosaic of fact, of which imagination weaves the pattern.

The Debt 1909

Lanfear's telling me that he had never known a lad of Dredge's age who gave such promise of uniting an aptitude for general ideas with the plodding patience of the accumulator of facts.

The Debt 1909