your greatest accomplishments."

"I'm pretty useful," the young man confessed, with a satisfied chuckle.
"Give you a black at snooker, what?"

Dominey took his arm and led him into the billiard-room.

"You will give me nothing, young fellow," he replied. "Set them up, and
I will show you how I made a living for two months at Johannesberg!"



CHAPTER XXII

The evening at Dominey hall was practically a repetition of the previous
one, with a different set of guests from the outer world. After dinner,
Dominey was absent for a few minutes and returned with Rosamund upon his
arm. She received the congratulations of her neighbours charmingly, and
a little court soon gathered around her. Doctor Harrison, who had been
dining, remained upon the outskirts, listening to her light-hearted
and at times almost brilliant chatter with grave and watchful interest.
Dominey, satisfied that she was being entertained, obeyed Terniloff's
gestured behest and strolled with him to a distant corner of the hall.

"Let me now, my dear host," the Prince began, with some eagerness in
his tone, "continue and, I trust, conclude the conversation to which all
that I said this morning was merely the prelude."

"I am entirely at your service," murmured his host.