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"Damme if I wouldn't rather have had him for a son-in-law than the other," he said to hih, brainy and a thoroughly steady sort of chap, but there is so about this man that I rather admire It ed if I knohat it is; but on iveAs for that affair in India, it's not every irl, and precious few men would have lived it down as he has done I believe I'd have put a bullet through my brain if it had been me," said Sir Richard honestly, "but I can quite realize that it's a long sight finer to see the thing through And if there's to be fresh trouble over these confounded anonyh thick and thin!"

And with this meritorious resolve Sir Richard went back to his comfortable fire and the paper which he had not, as yet, had the heart to peruse