["'I intend resigning my commission, sir'"] ([See page 15]) Frontispiece
["Several days later Miss Travers wrote to Hemming"]
["The door came in with a rending, sidelong fall"]
["'I have decided, sir, to stick to scribbling'"]
["At that moment Molly tripped into the room"]
PART ONE
HEMMING,
THE ADVENTURER
CHAPTER I.
CAPTAIN HEMMING FACES A CHANGE OF LIFE
The colonel sat in Captain Hemming's room. He looked about at the snug furnishings, and the photographs above the chimney. Even the row of polished spurs on their rack against the wall, and the line of well-shone boots and shoes at the head of the bed, could not do away with the homelike air of the room.