CHAPTER XX

THE VANQUISHED When Colonel and Mrs. Lewknor called at the Manor-house a few days later, Mrs. Trupp told them what had happened. "Burt paid her rent?" queried the Colonel. "Without her knowledge," said Mrs. Trupp. The Colonel shrugged. "I'm afraid our friend Ernie's a poor creature," he said. "Wishy-washy! That's about the long and short of it." "And yet he's got it in him!" commented Mrs. Trupp. "That's what I say," remarked Mrs. Lewknor with a touch of aggressiveness. The little lady, with the fine loyalty that…