Chapter 22 - NAY.

'What a mull they have made of it!' were Mr. Maurice Mohun's first words when he found the compartment free for a tete-a-tete with his brother.

'All's well that ends well,' was the brief reply.

'Well, indeed! Mary would not have thought so.' To which the colonel had nothing to say.

'It serves me out,' his brother went on presently. 'I ough