"My God!," the professor gasped. "I was afraid something like this might happen. He must have married the other girl." "I suppose," Decker said quietly, "that we should consider ourselves lucky that he didn't decide to go back to Pennsylvania." His voice broke off and he wondered what he had been saying. He looked up at the speakers' platform trying to remember why he should think it strange that it was draped in Union Jacks and that Lady Appleby-Simpkin should be saying, "And now, my dears, I know that all of you, as Loyal Daughters of the British Empire will be happy to know...." ... THE END * * * * * End of Project Gutenberg's The Ordeal of Colonel Johns, by George H. Smith