gambler who had held it for a time, it soon began to recover in careful
hands; while, as to Lacey, his losses were balanced by a heavy legacy
just before he married, when he looked as handsome and easy-going as
ever; and so he remained until stirred to action, as he subsequently
was, when in Africa, upon more than one occasion. Then he proved a
tough customer to have to deal with.

"And so you will not stay with Captain Lacey, Jerry?" said Sir Richard
one day.

"No, S'Richard. I'd do anything for him, sir; and, as for his dear
lady, she knows as I'd be her slave, but I seem to belong to you, sir,
and, as you're going out to Indy, I feel as if I must go too, and so I
volunteers."

Jerry did go, and nursed his master after wounds received in struggles
with the Hill Tribes, and, after fever, too; but never was Sir Richard
Frayne so near death as upon that day when he was borne back to Ratcham
upon a hurdle and the truth came out.

"Ah!" Jerry used to mutter sometimes over his pipe, "that was a narrow
squeak. But what I say is, there's worse lives than a soldier's, so
three cheers for The Queen's Scarlet."

THE END.

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