I asked him to let me come and work in his study to-night.

There's some of this Ovid I can't get on with, and he promised he'd help me out with it if I'd tell him what it was I didn't understand." The captain hesitated a moment, rather nonplussed by this unexpected reply.

"I believe you know something about this affair with Browse," he continued.

"Who did it ?" "Who did what ?" demanded Thurston snappishly.

"If you mean when he came banging at my study door last night--" "No, I don't mean that," interrupted Allingford.