"Well," asked Winn, with a smile, as he noticed the pleading glance, "what is it?"
Jim hesitated shyly for a moment, then burst out in his childish treble—
"I want to know how you did it?"
Winn laughed again, and caught the boy up and placed him on his shoulder.
"Come, that's not a fair question," he said; "it's a State secret."
"And, like most State secrets, everyone knows it, and is proud of it," put in Lady Dorothy, with a smile at Winn.
Her glance drifted up to Master Jim, who looked supremely happy in his lofty position.
"You'll understand one day, Jim," she added, "how these things are done, when you're grown up."
"When I'm grown up," retorted Master Jim, confidently, "I'm going to do the same myself."
"If we go on at our present rate, there won't be any of South Africa left for him by that time," said the Earl. "We shall have to discover a new field for him to operate upon. But there is no immediate hurry. What do you say to our visiting the kennels in the meantime?"