Besides, when he'd once got home, he's got a dozen men there, and they'd have kept us all night.
Well, sir, I must be off.

Any answer for the colonel?
He'll be outside the Golden House by eleven, sir, and Mr.Carr won't get in if he comes after that." "Tell him to rely on me," I answered.

But for all that I didn't mean to shoot Johnny on sight.

So, much perturbed in spirit, I set off to the barracks, wondering when Johnny would get to Whittingham, and whether he would fall into the colonel's hands outside the Golden House.

It struck me as unpleasantly probable that he might come and spoil the harmony of my evening; if he came there first, the conspiracy would probably lose my aid at an early moment! What would happen to me I didn't know.