It appeared that there was nothing he could do for his young wife before he wandered on in the jolly autumn sunshine.
So the next morning he cleared out. Which proceeding languidly interested Innisbrae that evening in the billiard-room.
That winter Clive got hurt while pig-sticking in Morocco, being but an indifferent spear. During convalescence he read "Under Two Flags," and approved the idea; but when he learned that the Spahi cavalry was not recruiting Americans, and when, a
month later, he discovered how much romance did not exist in either the First or Second Foreign Legions, he no longer desired dangers incognito under the tri-colour or under the standard bearing the open hand.
"During convalescence he read 'Under Two Flags' and approved the idea."
Some casual wanderer through the purlieus of science whom he met in Brindisi, induced him to go to Sumatra where orchids and ornithoptera are the game. But he acquired only a perfectly new species of fever, which took six months to get over.