XXX A REVOLUTION IN SIR CHICHESTER 287

XXXI JENNY AND MILLIE SPLAY 298

XXXII "BUT STILL A RUBY KINDLES IN THE VINE" 306




THE SUMMONS




CHAPTER I

THE OLYMPIC GAMES


"Luttrell! Luttrell!"

Sir Charles Hardiman stood in the corridor of his steam yacht and bawled
the name through a closed door. But no answer was returned from the
other side of the door. He turned the handle and went in. The night was
falling, but the cabin windows looked towards the north and the room was
full of light and of a low and pleasant music. For the tide tinkled and
chattered against the ship's planks and, in the gardens of the town
across the harbour, bands were playing. The town was Stockholm in the
year nineteen hundred and twelve, and on this afternoon, the Olympic