CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I   How We Drank a Toast 1
II   A Voice in the Night 13
III   In Which I Shed My Rank 32
IV   How My Rank Was Regained 50
V   A Kiss and a Man’s Life 73
VI   Dark Night 85
VII   And an Unblest Dawn 93
VIII   A Walk up Gallows Hill 104
IX   In Which I Pay a Duty Call 114
X   In Which a Wall Has Ears 131
XI   Out of the Nettle, Danger 146
XII   How the Hook Was Baited 163
XIII   How a Fish Was Hooked and Lost     176
XIV   A Cask of Bitters 192
XV   In the Fog 205
XVI   The Cup of Tantalus 209
XVII   Masked Batteries 221
XVIII   In Which the Wind Keeps Revels 239
XIX   Mine Honor’s Honor 256
XX   Traitors All 277
XXI   The Drumhead Court 296
XXII   In the Powder-Room 307
XXIII   Open Field and Running Flood 329