Chapter 17

"Please look at this, papa. Here is A and B. B offers a better chance, so Macpherson says John Macnab will take B. You say, acutely, that John Macnab is not a fool, and will try to bluff us by taking A. I say that John Macnab will have anticipated your acumen." "Yes, yes," said her father impatiently. "And then?" "And will take B after all." The Colonel stood rapt in unpleasant meditation for the space of five seconds. "God bless my soul!" he cried. "I see what you mean. Confound it, of course he'll go for Carnmore…