CHAPTER IX.
The Battle of Baden.
Lord Rickmansworth was enjoying himself.

Over and above the particular pleasures for whose sake he had come to Baden, he relished intensely the new attitude in which he found himself standing toward Ayre.

Throughout their previous acquaintance it had been Rickmansworth who was eager and excited, Ayre who applied the cold water.

Now the parts were reversed, and the younger man found great solace in jocosely rallying his senior on his unwonted zeal and activity.

Ayre accepted his friend's jocosity and his own excitement with equal placidity.