I begin to feel as if my word were doubted here; as if my failings and reckless confession of the beastly way in which I spent that night, were making you feel that I have no good in me and am at once a liar and a sneak.

I'm not.

I won't go with you to that low drinking hell, unless you make me, but I'll swear--" "Don't swear." It is unnecessary to say who spoke.

"We wouldn't believe you, and it would be only adding perjury to the rest." "You wouldn't believe me ?" "No; we have reasons, my boy.

There were two bottles." "Well ?" "The other has been found nearer your home." "That's a trick.