"Hullo, Cæsar! Why did you cut Chapel? And——"
John saw that the Carlton supper-card was in his hand. He chuckled again.
"Dumber has just given me—this. Did you go, after all?" he asked Cæsar. They had not met since Warde's visit of the night before.
"I didn't go," said Cæsar.
"Dumber gave it to me, with Verney's compliments."
"You've lost your bet," said John.
"But how?"
"Jonathan went to town instead of me," said Desmond. "We thought he was with Warde—he wasn't. This morning, early, I found out that he hadn't slept in his bed. I saw him come back, and I saw Dumber waiting for him. When Dumber came out of Warde's room, he told me that Jonathan had been up to town, and was going to be—sacked."
He blurted out the rest of the story, to which Scaife listened attentively. When Desmond finished, there was a pause.
"You're devilish clever," said Scaife to John.