" "I've just bethought me of a crib as'll serve their turn," interposed Sharples, "at any rate, they'll be out o' the vay, and as safe as two chicks in a coop. "Speak, or I fire!" "Well, if you will have it, it's Sir Rowland Trenchard. And then, as she stood there, with the fragments of the torn canvas at her feet, some even caught upon her skirt, the door was thrown open, and a girl entered humming a light tune. ‘Seems to me, missie, as you’re as dangerous a female as I’m like to see. This, then, was the woman from whom Hoddy would not have accepted a cup of water. “It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors. “You are in trouble,” he said. ’ ‘It is so in a convent, you see,’ she explained airily. Their houses became a refuge of ill repute, the source of rumor and intrigue in the highest echelons of society. A garrison called to arms at dead of night on the sudden approach of the enemy, could not have been more expeditiously, or effectually aroused. The scent of cloying pine dust filled the air as floodlights shone eerily through the jungle gym of new wood.