They had not the lifelong friendship that made St.George immune, and few of them would have dared to disagree with Talbot Rutter in anything.
"And now, sir"-- here the colonel made a step towards where Harry stood, the words falling as drops of water fall on a bared head--"I have sent for you to tell you just what I have told these gentlemen.

I have informed them openly because I do not wish either my sense of honor or my motives to be misunderstood.

Your performances to-night have been so dastardly and so ill-bred as to make it impossible for me ever to live under the same roof with you again." Harry started and his lips parted as if to speak, but he made no sound.

"You have disgraced your blood and violated every law of hospitality.

Mr.Willits should have been as safe here as you would have been under his father's roof.