Chapter 16

BREAKFAST time was the hour of controversy at the residency. It was most vehement when Captain Hamilton of the King’s Houssas had a little touch of liver, or was recovering from the effects of a bout of fever. Lieutenant Tibbetts could also be very annoying. He was constantly rediscovering obvious things, or revivifying theories that had been decently interred in the year dot. Never a trip did he make to the hinterland but he brought back some marvellous recovery of that which had never been lost. “As to the sceptr…