CHAPTER XXIII

THE COLONEL FACES DEFEAT The Colonel, who throughout his life while making a great show of radical opinions in the mess for the benefit of his brother-officers had always voted quietly for the Conservative party on the ground that they made upon the whole less of a hash of Imperial affairs than their Liberal opponents was profoundly troubled by the proceedings in Ulster. "The beggars are undermining the _morale_ of Ireland," he told Mr. Trupp. "And only those who've been quartered there know what that means." "If …