As a laundress of parts, Johnny was a jewel, but he could not mend! Now oddly enough as Mr.Poynter stared at the shirt upon the bed, his appearance was that of a young man decidedly out of sorts.

Presently with an ominous glint of temper in his fine eyes, he noiselessly rearranged his tent, viciously donned the offending shirt, whistled for Nero and leaving the camp of his lady as unexpectedly as he had entered it, set out for Sherrill's.
Even the most equable of tempers, it would seem, may now and then prove crotchety.
And who may say?
Mr.Poynter was a young man of infinite resource.
And there were other ways..