If I had been in my right mind I shouldn't have let Captain Dick mix up in my business and run the risk of getting killed in a nasty little row.

Dear old Dick! I made a mess of that whole business; I ought to have telegraphed for the Storm Springs constable in the beginning, and told him that if he wasn't careful the noble house of Schomburg would totter and fall." "Yes; and just imagine the effect on our constable of telling him that the fate of an empire lay in his hands.

It's hard enough to get a man arrested who beats his horse.

But you must go back to your keepers.

You haven't your hat--" "Neither have you; you shan't outdo me in recklessness.