Major Vigoureux (Classic Reprint)

CHAPTER I
IN THE GARRISON GARDEN
ee ARCHELA US," said the Commandant, (( where
did you get those trousers?"
Sergeant Archelaus, who, as he dug in the neglected
garden, had been exposing a great quantity of back-view
(for he was a long man), straightened himself up, faced
about, and, grounding his long-handled spade as it were
a musket, stood with palms crossed over the top of it.
(( Ofr the Lord Proprietor," he answered.
The Commandant, seated on a bench under the
veronica hedge, a few yards higher up the slope, laid
down his book, took off his spectacles, wiped them and
replaced them very deliberately.
(( The Lord Proprietor? I do not understand--"
His face had reddened a little, as it usually did at
mention of the Lord Proprietor.
(( Made me a present of 'em," explained Sergeant
Archelaus curtly. (( You don't mean to say you
haven't noticed 'em till this minute?"
The Commandant put the question aside. (( The
Lord Proprietor has no right to be offering p

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAP; I IN THE GARRISON GARDEN •; II SERGEANT ARCHELAUS IS REFITTED; III THE COMMANDANT FINESSES A KNAVE; IV THE GUN IN THE GREAT FOG; V THE SS MILO ; VI HOW YASHTI CA~lE TO THE ISLANDS; VII TRIDULATIONS OF MRS POPE AND MISS GABRIEL; VIII A BRIEF REVENGE; IX THE SALVING OF SS MILO; X THE ADVENTURES OF FOUR SHILLINGS; XI PLAN OF CA~I PAIGN; XII SAARON ISLAND; XIII TIn: LADY FROM THE SEA; XIV AFTER SERVICE; XV BREFAR CHURCH; XVI TilE LORD PROPRIETOR'S AUm ENCE; XVII TilE LORD I'ROI'HIETOR HECEIVES A DOUDLE SIIOCK; XVIII VASHTI rLEADS FOR SAARON; XIX TilE COMMANDANT'S CONSCIENCE; XX TIII~ GUITAR AND TilE CASEMENT; XXI SUSPICIONS; XXII CONCERNI:-