I go my way and do my duty, Colonel Ray." He blew out dense volumes of smoke, puffing furiously at his pipe for several minutes.

There seemed to be many things which he had it in his mind to say to me.

But, as though suddenly altering his purpose, he stood on one side.
"You shall go your own way," he said grimly.

"The Lord only knows where it will take you." It took me in the first place to the Duke, to whom I recounted briefly what had happened.

I could see that my story at once made a deep impression upon him.