"So it appears."
"Everybody is simply charmed with him! It is 'Lord Tupping this' and 'Lord Tupping that' on every hand!"
"Yes, yes," said Sir Harry indulgently, "Tuppy is a good fellow." The good fellow at that moment was expostulating with Hal.
"Now look here, Tanny, old friend," he said firmly. "I'm not goin' to meet anybody else. I'm sick of this business an' I'm dashed if I'm goin' to stick it any longer."
"It will be soon over, old man," soothed Hal, "we've finished the Duke."
"Oh!" said Tuppy absently.
"Yes—didn't you see the letter he wrote to the governor in his rag."
"No," said the innocent Tuppy.
"What! not the bit about the vultures in the air, and the brazen sky!"
"Blue sky," corrected Tuppy, and went on hastily, "I suppose you mean blue, don't you?"