CHAPTER XXIV

AND AGAIN THE ROSE OF DEVON The story of Philip Marsham and of Sir John Bristol, and of the fortune left by the good Doctor Marsham of Little Grimsby,--how it came to his grandson and was lost in the war that brought ruin to many a noble family,--is a tale that may some day be worth the telling. Of that, I make no promises. The years that followed were wild and turbulent, but during their passage Phil chanced upon one reminder and another of his earlier days of adventuring. He saw once again the long, ranting madma…