Chapter XXIV.--Mr. Pagebrook Cuts himself loose from the Past and Plans a Future 163 Chapter XXV.--In which Miss Sudie Acts very Unreasonably 166 Chapter XXVI.--In which Miss Sudie Adopts the Socratic Method. 175 Chapter XXVII.--Mr. Pagebrook Accepts an Invitation to Lunch and another Invitation 181 Chapter XXVIII.--Major Pagebrook asserts himself 188 Chapter XXIX.--Mr. Barksdale, the Younger, Goes upon a Journey 198 Chapter XXX.--The younger Mr. Barksdale Asks to be put upon His Oath 204 Chapter XXXI.--Mr. William Barksdale Explains 208 Chapter XXXII.--Which Is also The Last 216 ILLUSTRATIONS. "I've got You Now." _Frontispiece_. Mr. Robert Pagebrook was "Blue." 13 "I fall at once into a Chronic State of Washing up Things." 57 "Foggy." 73 Cousin Sarah Ann 87 The Rivulets of Blue Blood 98 Miss Sudie declares herself "so glad." 116 "Let him Serve it at once, then." 156 "Very well, then." 194 "I'm as Proud and as Glad as a Boy with Red Morocco Tops to his Boots." 218 A MAN OF HONOR. CHAPTER I. _Mr. Pagebrook gets up and calls an Ancient Lawgiver._ Mr. Robert Pagebrook was "blue." There was no denying the fact, and for the first time in his life he admitted it as he lay abed one September morning with his hands locked over the top of his head, while his shapely and muscular body was stretched at lazy length under a scanty covering of sheet. He was snappish too, as his faithful serving man had discovered upon knocking half an hour ago for entrance, and receiving a rather pointed and wholly unreasonable injunction to "go about his business," his sole business lying just then within the precincts of Mr. Robert Pagebrook's room, to which he was thus denied admittance. The old servant had obeyed to the best of his ability, going not about his business but away from it, wondering meanwhile what had come over the young gentleman, whom he had never found moody before. [Illustration: "MR. ROBERT PAGEBROOK WAS 'BLUE.'"]