CHAPTER XXVI

WHICH DESCRIBES THE HEROICAL ADVENT OF A DEMIGOD "My superbly arrogant and ridiculously quixotic John," quoth his lordship, when he had heard the story, its every detail faithfully recounted, "here is amazing tangle infernally confounded!" "And becoming more so!" nodded Sir Marmaduke. "I am wondering if it were wiser to take chaise to London." "And carry your rustic nymph with you, John?" Sir Marmaduke stared thoughtfully out of the window. "You believe she is sheltering some one, John?" "I am positively sure of i…