Use it!" "Heaven forbid! Let him show his teeth.

It is I who am in the wrong.

Why should I make him more my enemy than he is ?" "Be it so.

Only, if the worst comes to the worst, call him not Elsley Vavasour, but plain John Briggs--and see what follows." Valencia entered.
"The post has come in! Oh, dear Major Campbell, is there a letter ?" He put the note into her hand in silence.

She read it, and darted back to Lucia's room.
"Thank God that she did not see that I was going! One more pang on earth spared!" said Campbell to himself.
Valencia hurried to Lucia's door.