"Thackeray went one better than Beranger, that time." "I forgot," said Colonel Winwood.

"My sister told me.

You go about with Beranger as a sort of pocket Bible." Paul laughed again.

"When one is on the tramp one's choice of books is limited by their cubical content.

One couldn't take Gibbon, for instance, or a complete Balzac." Colonel Winwood tugged at his drooping moustache and again scrutinized the frank and exceedingly attractive youth.