At any rate everybody cheered, including the servants, who had gathered at the back of the big hall.
I remember that to complete the story I introduced several other leopards, a mother and two three-part-grown cubs, also a wounded buffalo, and told how Mr.Scroope finished them off one after the other with a hunting knife.

The thing was to watch his face as the history proceeded.

Luckily he was sitting next to me and I could kick him under the table.

It was all very amusing, and very happy also, for these two really loved each other.

Thank God that I, or rather Brother John, was able to bring them together again.
It was during that stay of mine in Essex, by the way, that I first met Lord Ragnall and the beautiful Miss Holmes with whom I was destined to experience some very strange adventures in the after years.
After this interlude I got to work.