aptain Jack! Oh, Captain Jack! Wait for me! You have room,
haven't you?"

A whirlwind of flashing legs and windblown masses of gold-red hair,
which realised itself into a young girl of about sixteen, bore down on
the car. It was Adrien's younger sister, Patricia, and at once her pride
and her terror.

"Why, Patsy, where on earth did you come from? Of course! Get in! Glad
to have you, old chap."

"Oh, Captain Jack, what a game! What a wonderful game! And Rupert has
been playing all summer and awfully well! And you have hardly played a
game! I was awfully pleased--"

"Were you? I'm not sure that I was," replied Captain Jack.

"Well, you WERE savage, you know. You looked as if you were in a fight."

"Did I? That was very rotten of me, wasn't it?"

"Oh, I don't know exactly. But it was a wonderful game. Of course, one
doesn't play tennis like a fight, I suppose."

"No! You are quite right, Pat," replied Captain Jack. "You see, I'm
afraid I lost my temper a bit, which is horribly bad form I know,
and--well, I wanted to fight rather than play, and of course one
couldn't fight on the tennis court in the presence of a lot of ladies,
you see."

"Well, I'm glad you didn't fight, Captain Jack. You have had enough of
fighting, haven't you? And Rupert is really very nice, you know. He has
a wonderful car and he lets me drive it, and he always brings a box of
chocolates every time he comes."

"He must be perfectly lovely," said Captain Jack, with a grin at her.

The girl laughed a laugh of such infectious jollity that Captain Jack
was forced to join with her.

"That's one for you, Captain Jack," she cried. "I know I am a pig where
chocs are concerned, and I do love to drive a car. But, really, Rupert
is quite nice. He is so funny. He makes Mamma laugh. Though he does
tease me a lot."

Captain Jack drove on in silence for some moments.

"I was glad to see you playing though to-day, Captain Jack."

"Where were you? I didn't see you anywhere."

"Not likely!" She glanced behind her at the others in the back seat. She
need not have given them a thought, they were too deeply engrossed to
heed her. "Do you know where I was? In the crutch of the big elm--you
know!"

"Don't I!" said Captain Jack. "A splendid seat, but--"

"Wouldn't Adrien be shocked?" said the girl, with a deliciously
mischievous twinkle in her eye. "Or, at least, she would pretend to be.
Adrien thinks she must train me down a bit, you know. She says I