I don't see how I can--However, I'll go across to the committee room now and talk it over." It is doubtful whether young Murchison knew all that Bingham thought; Bingham so seldom told it all.

There were matters in the back of Bingham's mind that prompted him to urge the course that Cruickshank had been empowered by the opposing counsel to suggest--party considerations that it would serve no useful purpose to talk over with Murchison.
Bingham put it darkly when he said he had quite as much hay on his fork as he cared to tackle already, implying that the defence of indiscretions in Moneida was quite an unnecessary addition.
Contingencies seemed probable, arising out of the Moneida charges that might affect the central organization of the party in South Fox to an extent wholly out of proportion with the mere necessity of a second election.

Bingham talked it over with Horace Williams, and both of them with Farquharson; they were all there to urge the desirability of "sawing off" upon Lorne when he found them at headquarters.

Their most potent argument was, of course, the Squire and the immediate dismissal that awaited him under the law if undue influence were proved against him.

Other considerations found the newly elected member for South Fox obstinate and troublesome, but to that he was bound to listen, and before that he finally withdrew his objections.