CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [CONCERNING THE MAJOR'S CHERRIES]
II. [INTRODUCING THE RAVISHER OF THE SAME]
III. [WHICH TELLS HOW THE MAJOR CLIMBED A WALL]
IV. [CONCERNING THE BUTTONS OF THE RAMILLIE COAT]
V. [HOW SERGEANT ZEBEDEE TRING BEGAN TO WONDER]
VI. [WHICH DESCRIBES, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A POACHER]
VII. [WHICH RELATES HOW THE POACHER ESCAPED]
VIII. [OF PANCRAS, VISCOUNT MERIVALE]
IX. [WHICH IS A VERY BRIEF CHAPTER]
X. [INTRODUCING DIVERS FINE GENTLEMEN]
XI. [IN WHICH LADY BELINDA TALKS]
XII. [THE VISCOUNT DISCOURSES ON SARTORIAL ART]
XIII. [OF INDIGNATION, A WOOD, AND A GIPSY]
XIV. [SOME DESCRIPTION OF A KISS]
XV. [WHEREIN IS MUCH TALK BUT LITTLE ACTION]
XVI. [HOW MR. DALROYD SAW A GHOST AND THE SERGEANT AN APPARITION]
XVII. [HOW MY LADY BETTY WROTE A LETTER]
XVIII. [HOW MAJOR D'ARCY RECOVERED HIS YOUTH]
XIX. [HOW THE MAJOR LOST HIS YOUTH AGAIN]
XX. [HOW THE MAJOR RAN AWAY]
XXI. [OF CRIMINATIONS]
XXII. [WHICH RELATES HOW SERGEANT ZEBEDEE TRING QUELLED SCANDAL WITH A PEWTER POT]
XXIII. [DESCRIBES A TRIUMPH AND A DEFEAT]
XXIV. [DEALS, AMONG OTHER THINGS, WITH TREASONABLE MATTERS]
XXV. [IN WHICH THE GHOST IS LAID]
XXVI. [OF BACCHUS AND THE MUSES]
XXVII. [HOW THE SERGEANT RECOUNTED AN OLD STORY]
XXVIII. [THE MAJOR COMES TO A RESOLUTION]
XXIX. [TELLS HOW LADY BETTY DID THE SAME]
XXX. [CONCERNING CHARLES, EARL OF MEDHURST]
XXXI. [WHICH DESCRIBES SOMETHING OF MY LADY BETTY'S GRATITUDE]
XXXII. [FLINT AND STEEL]
XXXIII. [DESCRIBING SOMETHING OF COQUETRY AND A DAWN]
XXXIV. [HOW MR. DALROYD MADE A PLAN AND LOCKED HIS DOOR]
XXXV. [HOW THE SERGEANT TOOK WARNING OF A WITCH]
XXXVI. [HOW THEY RODE TO INCHBOURNE]
XXXVII. [OF ROGUES AND PLOTS]
XXXVIII. [HOW THE MAJOR MADE HIS WILL]
XXXIX. [WHICH IS A QUADRUPLE CHAPTER]
XL. [OF THE ONSET AT THE HAUNTED MILL]
XLI. [CONCERNING HIGHWAYMEN AND THE ELEMENT OF SURPRISE]
XLII. [WHICH DESCRIBES A DUEL]
XLIII. [HOW THEY DRANK A NEW TOAST]
XLIV. [SOME ACCOUNT OF A HIGHWAYMAN]
XLV. [CERTAIN ADVENTURES OF THE RAMILLIE COAT]
XLVI. [FURTHER INTIMATE ADVENTURES OF THE RAMILLIE COAT]
XLVII. [OF A FEMININE COUNCIL OF WAR]
XLVIII. [OF THE INSUBORDINATION OF SERGEANT ZEBEDEE TRING]
XLIX. [OF A JOURNEY BY NIGHT]
L. [WHICH TELLS OF ANOTHER DAWN]

OUR ADMIRABLE BETTY

CHAPTER I

CONCERNING THE MAJOR'S CHERRIES

"The Major, mam, the Major has a truly wonderful 'ead!" said Sergeant Zebedee Tring as he stood, hammer in hand, very neat and precise from broad shoe-buckles to smart curled wig that offset his square, bronzed face.

"Head, Sergeant, head!" retorted pretty, dimpled Mrs. Agatha, nodding at the Sergeant's broad back.

"'Ead mam, yes!" said the Sergeant, busily nailing up a branch of the Major's favourite cherry tree. "The Major has a truly wonderful 'ead, regarding which I take liberty to ob-serve as two sword-cuts and a spent bullet have in nowise affected it, Mrs. Agatha, mam, which is a fact as I will maintain whenever and wherever occasion demands, as in dooty bound mam, dooty bound."

"Duty, Sergeant, duty!"