Don't forget that you are the daughter of a diplomat." "Humph! It doesn't follow, necessarily, that I should be stupid!" "You couldn't be that, Shirley, dear." "Thank you, Captain." They discussed family matters for a few minutes; then she said, with elaborate irrelevance: "Well, we must hope that your appearance will cause no battles to be fought in our garden.

There was enough fighting about here in old times." "Take heart, little sister, I shall protect you.

Oh, it's rather decent of Armitage to have kept away from you, Shirley, after all that fuss about the bogus baron." "Which he wasn't--" "Well, Sanderson says he couldn't have been, and the rogues' gallery pictures don't resemble our friend at all." "Ugh; don't speak of it!" and Shirley shrugged her shoulders.

She suffered her eyes to climb the slopes of the far hills.

Then she looked steadily at her brother and laughed.
"What do you and father and Baron von Marhof want with Mr.John Armitage ?" she asked.
"Guess again!" exclaimed Dick hurriedly.