"You weren't there. You were gossiping by the Assembly Room door. What did you hear there?"
Zach made a face, and said:
"Let go, and I'll tell you." Graves relaxed her hold. "I heard the young gent tell Sir Maxwell he was a liar, and he'd fight him about Miss Mainwaring. There! you've told me I'm a liar, and I'd like to fight you" quoth Zach savagely.
CHAPTER XV.
CHALLENGED.
When the first heat of passion was over, Leslie Travers went sorrowfully towards his home in King Street.
Mr. Beresford would not leave him till he saw him safely to the door, which was opened by Giles, who greeted his young master with a yawn, and said:
"The mistress has been a-bed these three hours. Ye are burning the candle at both ends, Master Leslie."
Something in Leslie's manner struck the old servant. He preceded his young master to the parlour, threw on a log, and lighted two candles, which stood like tall sentinels on either side of the mantelshelf, in heavy brass candlesticks.