“Don’t seem like it, for you to go and have a jolly night of adventures like that, and leave me out in the cold.”
“I couldn’t help it, Drew,” said Frank apologetically.
“Yes, you could. I smell a rat now. I thought you turned very queer when we were by your house yesterday. Then you saw him at one of the windows?”
Frank looked at him frowningly, and then nodded his head.
“And never told me! Well, this is being a friend! I would have trusted you. But, I say, it was grand. I’ve just seen Captain Murray and the doctor. They were together in the captain’s room. They wouldn’t say so, of course, but they were delighted to hear he got away, though they say they wouldn’t wonder if you were dismissed.”
“I don’t care, if my mother has to leave too.”
“Ah! but the Princess wouldn’t let her go. I say, how do you feel now?”
“Very miserable,” said Frank sadly.
“Nonsense! You mean not so precious loyal as you were.”
“If you are going to begin about that business again, I am going,” said Frank coldly.