It will be time for that when I get my majority." "Ah! That is all very well, Hallett; I know you took a good half-hour dressing your hair, previous to that dinner party last week." "It has to be brushed.

It was nearly all cut off, when we were in Cape Coast, and one doesn't want to go out looking like a fretful porcupine." So, laughing and joking, they started the next morning.

There was, as the colonel had predicted, a large meet.

Many ladies came on horseback, and others in carriages.

The two young officers were soon engaged, chatting and laughing, with the latter.
"Do you mean to say that you are not going to ride, Captain Bullen ?" one of the ladies on horseback said.
"In the first place, Miss Merton, I am an infantry officer and, except for a few weeks when I was on the staff of Colonel Lockhart, I have never done any riding.