'Just make each group run to the Castle and back and take the names of the first two in each heat. It's quite simple.

'I'll try, he said sadly.

Paul and Philbrick went into the pavilion together.

'Me, a butler, said Philbrick, 'made to put up tents like a blinking Arab!

'Well, it's a change, said Paul.

'It's a change for me to be a butler, said Philbrick. 'I wasn't made to be anyone's servant.

'No, I suppose not.

'I expect you wonder how it is that I come to be here? said Philbrick.

'No, said Paul firmly, 'nothing of the kind. I don't in the least want to know anything about you; d'you hear?

'I'll tell you, said Philbrick; 'it was like this ‑