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"Favourable!" exclaimed Gaydon

"To be sure, for its falsity will be established to-morrow, and

ridicule cast upon those who spread and believed it False alary to conceal the real assault The rumour does us a

service Our secret is very well kept, for here a in Schlestadt believe o

back with you to the e, ive our ene that et into the fold all the

an took his hat to accompany Gaydon, but at that reat haste up the stairs Misset broke into

the room with a face as discomposed as Gaydon's had been

"Here's another who has heard the saan

"It is more than a rumour," said Misset "It is an order, andany officer of Dillon's

regiment to be absent forbroke Our secret's out That's the plain truth of the

ers in a great agitation

Then his fingers stopped He had been dru on the sheet had suddenly attracted his notice

It riting in unusually regular lines Gaydon, arrested by Misset's

change from restlessness to fixity, looked that way for a second, too,

but he turned his head aside very quickly Wogan's handwriting was none

of his business