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THE TERRIBLE TWINS

behavior of Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer had given them the weapons.

The result of their council was that not later than seven o'clock that evening Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer was served by the constable of Little Deeping with a summons for an assault on Violet Anastasia Dan-
gerfield, and with another summons for an assault on Bertram Carrington, F.R.S.; and in the course of the next twenty minutes his keeper was served with a summons for an assault on Rupert Carring-
ton.

Though on recovering consciousness he had sent the keeper to scour the neighborhood for Wiggins and the Terror, Mr. D'Arcy Rosenheimer was in a chastened shaken mood, owing to the fact that he had been "put to sleep by an uppercut on the point." He made haste to despatch a car into Row-
ington to bring the lawyer who managed his local business.

The lawyer knew his client's unpopularity in the county, and advised him earnestly to try to hush these matters up. He declared that however Pom-
eranian one might be by extraction and in spirit, no bench of English magistrates would take a

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