Then he sat down again to consider ways and
means of obtaining the necessary mummy and still more necessary
money.
CHAPTER VIII
THE BARONET
Sir Frank Random was an amiable young gentleman with--as the
saying goes--all his goods in the shop window. Fair-haired and
tall, with a well-knit, athletic figure, a polished manner, and a
man-of-the-world air, he strictly resembled the romantic officer
of Bow Bells, Family Herald, Young Ladies' Journal fiction. But
the romance was all in his well-groomed looks, as he was as
commonplace a Saxon as could be met with in a day's march. Fond
of sport, attentive to his duties as artillery captain, and
devoted to what is romantically known as the fair sex, he
sauntered easily through life, very well contented with himself
and with his agreeable surroundings. He read fiction when he did
read, and those weekly papers devoted to sport; troubled his head
very little about politics, save when they had to do with a
possible German invasion, and was always ready to do any one a
good turn. His brother-officers declared that he was not half a
bad sort, which was high praise from the usually reticent service
man. His capacity may be accurately gauged by the fact that he
did not possess a single enemy, and that every one spoke well of
him.
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