“A FINE OF FIVE POUNDS WILL BE CHARGED AGAINST PERSONS FOUND TRESPASSING ON THESE GROUNDS.”
Miss Campbell turned to the Motor Maids, who had gathered about her as lieutenants around their chief officer.
“Bring me my hand bag,” she ordered.
Mary Price, at her elbow, hastened with swift obedience to the motor, returning with the bag.
“Now,” announced the redoubtable General Helen Eustace Campbell, searching in the depths of the bag, “we may consider the case as settled.” She brought forth a five-pound note which she almost tossed at the Duke of Kilkenty. “It will give me great pleasure to tell in America that we were made to pay five pounds by an English duke——”
“Irish——” put in Feargus.
“For just escaping being gored to death by one of his own beasts.”
The Duke of Kilkenty actually took the money and examined it carefully.
“I shall demand five pounds of each one of you,” he said. “This is not enough, as you will see by the sign.”
Again they turned toward the sign.