Finding you in sound slumber, and hearing the rattle of the dice-box below, I came softly down and found means to join their party--whereby I am a richer man by fifteen guineas, and might have had more had that young fool not lugged out at me, or had the talk not turned afterwards upon such unseemly subjects as the laws of chemistry and the like.

Prythee, what have the Horse Guards Blue to do with the laws of chemistry?
Wessenburg of the Pandours would, even at his own mess table, suffer much free talk--more perhaps than fits in with the dignity of a leader.

Had his officers ventured upon such matter as this, however, there would have been a drum-head court-martial, or a cashiering at the least.' Without stopping to dispute either Master Saxon's judgment or that of Wessenburg of the Pandours, I proposed that we should order an evening meal, and should employ the remaining hour or two of daylight in looking over the city.

The principal sight is of course the noble cathedral, which is built in such exact proportion that one would fail to understand its great size did one not actually enter it and pace round the long dim aisles.

So solemn were its sweeping arches and the long shafts of coloured light which shone through the stained-glass windows, throwing strange shadows amongst the pillars, that even my companion, albeit not readily impressed, was silent and subdued.