Major Tifto Major Tifto had lately become a member of the Beargarden Club, under the auspices of his friend Lord Silverbridge.

It was believed, by those who had made some inquiry into the matter, that the Major had really served a campaign as a volunteer in the Carlist army in the north of Spain.

When, therefore, it was declared by someone that he was not a major at all, his friends were able to contradict the assertion, and to impute it to slander.

Instances were brought up,--declared by these friends to be innumerable, but which did, in truth, amount to three or four,--of English gentlemen who had come home from a former Carlist war, bearing the title of colonel, without any contradiction or invidious remark.

Had this gallant officer appeared as Colonel Tifto, perhaps less might have been said about it.