"Yes; all of that," admitted the adjutant dryly. "Better go in at once, and take your medicine, for the colonel is about ready to leave and go over to his house."
As Algy entered Colonel North's office the older man lifted his head and looked rather coldly at Mr. Ferrers.
Algy brought up his hand in a tardy salute, then stood there.
But the colonel only continued to look at him. Ferrers fidgeted until he could endure the silence no longer.
"You—you wanted to speak to me, sir?" stammered Algy, the frigid atmosphere disconcerting him.
"I never wanted to speak to a man less in my life," rejoined Colonel North icily.
"Thank you, sir. Then I'll be going."
"Stop, sir!"
"Eh, sir?"
"Mr. Ferrers, I'll listen to whatever you have to say."