"I'm in love am I?" he said, striking a match. "Well, that's true enough, but whether it's a wise thing to be in love is quite another affair! Humph!" lighting his pipe, "it all depends on Victoria."
He picked up the morning paper, and was about to settle himself down for a good read, when a knock came to the door.
"Confound it!" grumbled Otterburn, folding up the paper, as he heard Johnnie Armstrong going to the door. "I wonder who that is?"
His question was answered in another moment by himself, for suddenly a massive figure appeared at the door of the small sitting-room, and Otterburn sprang to his feet with a cry of pleasure:
"Eustace Gartney."
[CHAPTER XVIII.]
FROM FOREIGN PARTS.
"I have come from lands fantastic,
Which the desert sands environ,
Where the Koran's laws adrastic