It is of no use bothering yourself about it, Isobel; it is best to take matters as you find them." Isobel made no answer, but she was much disappointed when Dr.Wade, dropping in to tiffin, said his guest had started two hours before for Deennugghur.

He had a batch of letters and reports from his native clerk, and there was something or other that he said he must see to at once.
"He begged me to say, Major, that he was very sorry to go off without saying goodby, but he hoped to be in Cawnpore before long.

I own that that part of the message astonished me, knowing as I do what difficulty there is in getting him out of his shell.

He and I became great chums when I was over at Deennugghur two years ago, and the young fellow is not given to making friends.

However, as he is not the man to say a thing without meaning it, I suppose he intends to come over again.