Benson--you dog! What's the meaning of this?
Do you think I'll have under me any coward that will badger a woman ?" The man he addressed looked at him with a cowed expression on his hairy face.

"I never wanted to interfere with her," he growled.

"But she's protecting that damned policeman.

It's her own fault for getting in our way." "You're wrong then!" flashed back Warden.

"Fletcher Hill is under my protection, not hers.