Chapter 19 THE COMMANDANT'S CONSCIENCE

"The Lord Proprietor to see you, sir!"

Archelaus, presenting himself at the door of the Commandant's office, with a slightly flushed but inscrutable face, drew aside and flattened himself against the door-jamb to let Sir C?sar enter.

The Commandant closed the book in which he had been adding up accounts which never came right, and stood up in