oose.'

'Why?' said Havill.

'Because I keep your secret of the letter abusing Miss P., and of the
pilfered tracing you carry in your pocket.'

'It is quite true,' said Havill.

They went to bed again. Dare was soon asleep; but Havill did not attempt
to disturb him again. The elder man slept but fitfully. He was aroused
in the morning by a heavy rumbling and jingling along the highway
overlooked by the window, the front wall of the house being shaken by
the reverberation.

'There is no rest for me here,' he said, rising and going to the window,
carefully avoiding the neighbourhood of Mr. Dare. When Havill had
glanced out he returned to dress himself.

'What's that noise?' said Dare, awakened by the same rumble.

'It is the Artillery going away.'

'From where?'

'Markton barracks.'

'Hurrah!' said Dare, jumping up in bed. 'I have been waiting for that
these six weeks.'

Havill did not ask questions as to the meaning of this unexpected
remark.

When they were downstairs Dare's first act was to ring the bell and ask
if his Army and Navy Gazette had arrived.

While the servant was gone Havill cleared his throat and said, 'I am an
architect, and I take in the Architect; you are an architect, and you
take in the Army and Navy Gazette.'

'I am not an architect any more than I am a soldier; but I have taken in
the Army and Navy Gazette these many weeks.'

When they were at breakfast the paper came in. Dare hastily tore it open
and glanced at the pages.

'I am going to Markton after breakfast!' he said suddenly, before
looking up; 'we will walk together if you like?'

They walked together as planned, and entered Markton about ten o'clock.

'I have just to make a call here,' said Dare, when they were opposite
the barrack-entrance on the outskirts of the town, where wheel-tracks
and a regular chain of hoof-marks left by the departed batteries were
imprinted in the gravel between the open gates. 'I shall not be a
moment.' Havill stood still while his companion entered and asked
the commissary in charge, or somebody representing him, when the new
batteries would arrive to take the place of those which had gone away.
He was informed that it would be about noon.

'Now I am at your service,' said Dare, 'and will help you to rearrange
your design by the new intellectual light we have acquired.'

They entered Havill's office and set to work. When contrasted with
the tracing from Somerset's plan, Havill's design