"Wait a minute, will you?" Gratton hurried after him, his face hot with rage, while Steve Jarrold guffawed loudly and then, under Gloria's startled look, dropped his eyes.

So I happen to know that today he flung off in a rage, and began drinking, because somebody, almost by pure accident, had burned a packet of his verses" Thereupon Captain Musgrave raised heavy eyebrows, and guffawed so heartily that the candle flickered.

"Reckon this is my affair," she announced, with an effrontery at which one of the footmen guffawed openly.