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confidant, and I shall be only too pleased if I can assist you"

"Assistit all, sir, you--er--you don't seeain, but determined, nevertheless, to

"have it out" with the Spaniard "I--er--I haven't called to take you

intoof the sort I have come to demand an

explanation"

"An explanation?" Don Carlos raised his black eyebrows in see what, Mr Standish?"

"Concerning your outrageous conduct, sir," blurted out Tony, trying to

look fierce, but succeeding only in looking hot and e Myra--Miss Rostrevor She tellsto make love to her ever since you first one so far as to ask her to throw me over and elope with

you! What the deuce do you mean by it, sir? Miss Rostrevor, as you

are well aware, is engaged to be married to me How dare you make love

to my fiancée?"