What do the ladies of the city say of this strange social situation?
I never knew that the old beast had a daughter till to-day." Captain Hardwicke wearily replied: "They all hold aloof, of course, after some very rough rebuffs, as I believe the old boy will clear out for good when he gets his baronetcy.

It's possible that the girl is half a foreigner after all," mused Hardwicke.

"The duenna is surely a continental." "Yes; but she seems to be a very nice person.

I was there to-day at tiffin," finally said Major Hawke, "She had very little to say, and cleared out at once.

I did not see Miss Johnstone." They fell into an easy, rattling chronicle of things past and present, and before the two hours' ride was over, the astute Major felt that he had divined General Willoughby's object in sending his pet aid-de-camp to reconnoitre Hawke's lines and pierce the mystery of his rumored employment.
"I suppose that you will come up and duly report to the Chief," rather uneasily said Captain Hardwicke, as they neared the Club on their return.