Perhaps you will look at the matter a little more seriously when I tell you that Captain Granet will not be allowed to return to the Front." "Not be allowed ?" she repeated.

"Hugh, you are not serious!" "I have never been more serious in my life," he insisted.

"I am not in a position to tell you more than the bare facts or I might disclose some evidence which even you would have to admit throws a rather peculiar light upon some of this young man's actions.

As it is, however, I can do no more than warn you, and beg you," he went on, "to yield to my wishes in the matter of your further acquaintance with him." There was a moment's rather curious silence.

Geraldine seemed to be gazing through the walls of the room.