Something like a look of shame came into Judy's bright eyes,

"I am afraid I must have put my father to some inconvenience,"
she said quietly. "It was I who left the Gen--my brother here,
because I didn't know what to do with him for an hour or two.
But I quite meant to take him home myself. Has he been gone
long?"

"About half an hour," the officer said, and tried not to look
amused at the little girl's old-fashioned manner.

"Ah, thank you. Perhaps we can catch him up. Come on, Pip,"
and, nodding in a grave, distant manner, she turned away, and
went down the veranda and through the gate with her brother.

"A nice hole we're in," he said.

Judy nodded.

"It's about the very awfullest thing we've ever done in our lives.
Fancy the governor carting that child all the way from here! Oh,
lor'!"

Judy nodded again.

"Can't you speak?" he said irritably. "You've got us into this--
I didn't want to do it; but I'll stand by you, of course. Only
you'll have to think of something quick."

Judy bit three finger-tips off her right-hand glove, and looked