CHAPTER XXXI
MISHKA TURNS UP"You must have found Cornish history very fascinating, Maurice," Mary declared at breakfast-time next morning. "Jim says it was nearly twelve when you got back. You bad boy to keep such late hours, after you've been so ill, too!"
"I'm all right again now," I protested. "And the vicar certainly is a very interesting companion."
There were a couple of letters, one from the Courier office, and another from Harding, Lord Southbourne's private secretary, and both important in their way.
Harding wrote that Southbourne would be in town at the end of the week, en route for Scotland, and wished to see me if I were fit for service. "A soft job this time, a trip to the States, so you'll be able to combine business with pleasure."
Under any other circumstances I could
