CHAPTER XVII

At ten the next morning Captain Roantree was announced. He was in uniform again, the business-like new British uniform with its low-rolling lapels, its soft collar, its pockets as capacious as knapsacks and the Sam Browne belt over all. Dimny felt a little nervous at first about being alone with him, when they set forth in his motor-car, but she told herself that she would have many strange men to meet in many strange places before her quest was ended. Everybody in the house had some war-work ahead, and it was no t…