"And so Rutter holds the big end of the whip after all, does he ?" he exclaimed with some heat.

"He will find the skin on my back not a very valuable asset, but he is welcome to it.

He has about everything else." "But I'd rather pay it somehow if we could," rejoined Pawson in a furtive way--as if he had something up his sleeve he dare not spring upon him.
"Yes--of course you would," retorted St.George with a cynical laugh, slipping on his gloves.

"Pay it ?--of course pay it.

Pay everything and everybody! What do you think I'd bring at auction, Pawson?
I'm white, you know, and so I can't be sold on the block--but the doctors might offer you a trifle for cutting-up purposes.