CHAPTER XVII

JAIKIE OPENS HIS COMMUNICATIONS Jaikie slept like a log and awoke next morning in high spirits. These were mainly attributable to Alison's letter, which he re-read many times while he dressed. She had called him "Jaikie" on paper; she had sent him her love: the whole enterprise was a venture of his and Alison's--the others were only lay figures. At breakfast he had some slight uneasiness as to whether he had not been a little too clever. Had he not given too much rein to his ingenuity?... He had prevented Prince Jo…