Five minutes later, a whimper was heard.

It soon spread into a chorus, and then a fox dashed out from the opposite side; followed, in a couple of minutes, by the whole pack.
"Well, that is fun, is it not, Captain Bullen ?" said a girl, to whom he was talking, in one of the carriages.
"It is a pretty sight," he said, "and if the fox always got away, I should like it.

As it is, I say honestly that I don't." The meet now broke up, and the carriages dispersed.

Hallett and Lisle accepted an invitation to lunch with the ladies to whom they were talking.

Two hours later, Lisle was on the point of leaving, when a groom rode up at full speed.
"Is Captain Bullen here ?" he asked.
With a presentiment of evil, Lisle went out.
"The colonel has had a bad accident, sir.