Some two hundred metres down this road on the right there is a small spinney, which will afford splendid shelter for yourselves and your horses.

We hope to be there at about one o'clock after midnight of Monday morning.

Now, is all that quite clear, and are you both satisfied ?" "It is quite clear," exclaimed Hastings placidly; "but I, for one, am not at all satisfied." "And why not ?" "Because it is all too easy.

We get none of the danger." "Oho! I thought that you would bring that argument forward, you incorrigible grumbler," laughed Sir Percy good-humouredly.

"Let me tell you that if you start to-morrow from Paris in that spirit you will run your head and Armand's into a noose long before you reach the gate of Neuilly.