A quiet post was charming until it tried to be gay--so mused Miss Katherine Wayneworth Jones.
And of various other things, mused she.

Her brother, Captain Wayneworth Jones, was divorced from his wife and wedded to something he was hoping would in turn be wedded to a rifle; all the scientific cells of the family having been used for Wayne's brain, it was hard for Katie to get the nature of the attachment, but she trusted the ordnance department would in time solemnly legalize the affair--Wayne giving in marriage--destruction profiting happily by the union.

Meanwhile Wayne was so consecrated to the work of making warfare more deadly that he scarcely knew his sister had arrived.

But on the morrow, or at least the day after, would come young Wayneworth, called Worth, save when his Aunt Kate called him Wayne the Worthy.

Wayne the Worthy was also engaged in perfecting a death-dealing instrument, the same being the interrogation point.