After all sorts of mishaps a brother of the latter, one Felix Beauchene, a man of adventurous mind but a blunderhead, had gone to Algeria with his wife and daughter, there to woo fortune afresh; and the farm he had established was indeed prospering when, during a sudden revival of Arab brigandage, both he and his wife were murdered and their home was destroyed.

"At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity.

"L'ESTRANGE: Ib., m. Blunderhead.