ll. At the least she had expected a third, or perhaps more,
of the estate to be left to Frank. But that all should have gone to
Jack was a bitter pill which she found too difficult to swallow.

"How your father can have been so unjust I cannot imagine!" she had the
bad grace to remark to Jack on the evening after his chat with Dr
Hanly. "You and Frank are equally his sons, and should have been
treated alike. But it was always the same. You were to have first
place, and Frank was to have what was left. It is abominable, and if it
were not that your father was always unjust in dealing with Frank, I
really should begin to think that he was out of his senses when he made
that will."

Jack listened to his mother's reproach, and was on the point of
indignantly protesting; but better counsel prevailed, and he kept
silent.

Two weeks later he and Dr Hanly took the mid-day train for London,
leaving Mrs Somerton still in a very sullen mood, and Frank standing in
a lordly manner on the steps of Frampton Grange, with an ill-disguised
air of triumph about him which seemed to say that now at least he would
be head and ruler of the establishment.

Jack had only once before been to London, and when the four-wheeler in
which he and his friend were driving to their hotel became jammed in the
dense traffic which converges at the Mansion House he was perfectly
astounded. Nor was his astonishment lessened when he noticed how the
busmen and drivers joked and laughed as they drove their vehicles
through the narrowest parts with an accuracy which was wonderful; while
tall, powerful-looking policemen stood in the thick of it all, and with
a wave of a hand arrested the flow in one direction, while a flood of
omnibuses and carriages swept by in the other.

"Fine fellows, aren't they!" exclaimed Dr Hanly. "And many of them are
old soldiers too. I really do not think there is another force in the
world that equals them. They are well-trained and disciplined; polite
and obliging, especially to country-cousins like ourselves, and with a
power which is simply wonderful. I have never seen its equal, though I
have known of many attempts to copy. In Paris, for instance, the
policeman's efforts to control the traffic, and make a street-crossing
comparatively safe, are simply ludicrous."

Ten minutes later the cab drew up at the hotel, and their baggage was
carried in.

"Now, Jack, you can do as you like for the next hour," cried the do