Half a Hero: A Novel

CHAPTER I.

THE IMPOSSIBLE--INEVITABLE.

In the garden the question was settled without serious difference of opinion. If Sir Robert Perry really could not go on--and Lady Eynesford was by no means prepared to concede even that--then Mr. Puttock, _bourgeois_ as he was, or Mr. Coxon, conceited and priggish though he might be, must come in. At any rate, the one indisputable fact w...