But were he to cudgel Colonel Osborne, he would be simply arrested, and he would then be told that he had disgraced himself foully by striking a man old enough to be his father! How was he to have avoided the employment of some such man as Bozzle?
He had also employed a gentleman, his friend, Stanbury; and what was the result?
The facts were not altered.

Even Stanbury did not attempt to deny that there had been a correspondence, and that there had been a visit.

But Stanbury was so blind to all impropriety, or pretended such blindness, that he defended that which all the world agreed in condemning.

Of what use had Stanbury been to him?
He had wanted facts, not advice.

Stanbury had found out no facts for him; but Bozzle, either by fair means or foul, did get at the truth.