He was not a coward, but he had no hankering after death, and there was death in Lessingham's threat and in the flash of his eyes.

While he hesitated, there was a knock upon the door.

Mills came silently in.

He carried a telegram upon a salver.
"For you, sir," he announced, addressing Captain Griffiths.

"An orderly has just brought it down." Griffiths looked at the pink envelope and frowned.