"It's grateful I am, Mr. Kingsnorth," and he went out.

In through the open window came the sound of the tramping of many
feet and the whisper of subdued voices.

Kingsnorth hurried out on to the path and saw a number of men and
women walking slowly down the drive, in the centre of which the
soldiers were carrying a body on some branches. Riding beside them
was his sister Angela with her groom.

"What new horror is this?" he thought, as he hurried down the path
to meet the procession.




CHAPTER V

ANGELA


Wilberforce Kingsnorth left three children: Nathaniel--whose
acquaintance we have already made, and who in a large measure
inherited much of his father's dominant will and hardheadedness--
Monica, the elder daughter, and Angela the younger.

Nathaniel was the old man's favourite.

While still a youth he inculcated into the boy all the tenets of
business, morality and politics that had made Wilberforce