Chapter 48

'Tis law as stedfast as the throne of Zeus -

Our days are heritors of days gone by.'

AESCHYLUS: Agamemnon.

A LITTLE after five o'clock that day, Harold arrived at Transome Court. As he was winding along the broad road of the park, some parting gleams of the March sun pierced the trees here and there, and threw on the grass a long shadow of