The foreign young gentleman received this statement with pain and astonishment as to the fact, with passionate remorse as to his own ignorance.

But still, as it was a charming day, would not his gallant friend, the Captain here, accept the challenge of the brave Englishman, and "walk him" for the glory of his flag and a thousand pounds?
The gallant Captain, unfortunately, believed that if he walked out in his uniform he would suffer some delay from being interrogated by wayfarers as to the locality of the circus he would be pleasantly supposed to represent, even if he escaped being shot as a rare California bird by the foreign sporting contingent.

In these circumstances, he would simply lounge around the house until his carriage was ready.
Much as it pained him to withdraw from such amusing companions, the foreign young gentleman here felt that he, too, would retire for the present to change his garments, and glided back through the window at the same moment that the young officer carelessly stepped from the veranda and lounged towards the shrubbery.
"They've been watching each other for the last hour.

I wonder what's up ?" said the young man who remained.
The remark, without being confidential, was so clearly the first sentence of natural conversation that the Scotchman, although relieved, said, "Eh, man ?" a little cautiously.
"It's as clear as this sunshine that Captain Carroll and Garnier are each particularly anxious to know what the other is doing or intends to do this morning." "Why did they separate, then ?" asked the other.
"That's a mere blind.

Garnier's looking through his window now at Carroll, and Carroll is aware of it." "Eh!" said the Scotchman, with good-humored curiosity.