Adjutant Wright fumed inwardly, though he turned to Hal to say:
"Sergeant, inspect the guard."
A little later Hal marched his new guard down to the guard house. Lieutenant Ferrers had not yet been found, and there was a storm brewing.
CHAPTER VIII
ASTONISHMENT JOLTS MR. FERRERS
IT was nearly four in the afternoon when the sentry on post number one called briskly:
"Sergeant of the guard, post number one!"
"What is it, sentry?" asked Hal, stepping briskly out of the guard house.