What idiot invented that ?" Wratislaw pulled his head in and sat back in his chair.

"You are sure you don't happen to know ?" "Sure.

But it is just the sort of canard which the gentry on the other side of the frontier would invent to keep things quiet.

Who are the Englishmen at Bardur now ?" The elder man looked shrewdly at the younger, who was carelessly pulling a flower to pieces.

"There's Logan, whom you know, and Thwaite and Gribton." "Good men all, but slow in the uptake.