He ended with, 'So you are
Allen Brownlow! You'll remember this day's work, youngster.' I
humbly said I should, and so the matter ended."
"He did not mean any prosecution?"
"O no, that was all quashed, even if it was begun. He must have been
under an hallucination that he was a stern parent, cutting me off
with a shilling."
The words had also struck the Colonel, who sought the first
opportunity of asking his sister-in-law whether she knew the names of
any of her mother's relations.
"Only that her name was Otway," said Caroline. "You know I lived
with my father's aunt, who knew nothing about her, and I have never
been able to find anything out. Do you know of any connection? Not
this old man? Then you would have known."
"That does not follow, for I was scarcely in Jamaica at all. I had a
long illness immediately after going there, was sent home on leave,
and then to the depot, and only joined again after the regiment had
gone to Canada, when the marriage had taken place. I may have heard
the name of Mrs. Allen's uncle, but I never bore it in my mind."
"Is there any way of finding out?"
"I will write to Norton. If he does not remember all about it, his
wife will."
"He is the present lieutenant-colonel, I think."
"Yes, and he was your father's chief friend.
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