This was not the Mr.Hazlewood of yesterday.
The champion had dwindled into a figure of meanness.

Harold Hazlewood would be glad to discover those reasonable grounds; and he would be very much obliged if Robert Pettifer would take upon himself the responsibility of discovering them.
"Yes, I see," said Pettifer slowly.

He was half inclined to leave Harold Hazlewood to find his way out of his trouble by himself.

It was all his making after all.

But other and wider considerations began to press upon Pettifer.