And never come near us again!" Fletcher fell back a step, but he was too furious to obey such a command.
"Do you think I am going to leave that confounded humbug to have it all his own way ?" he snarled.

"I tell you--" But here Culver intervened.
"You shut up!" he ordered sternly.

"We've had too much of you already.
You had better go." He took Fletcher imperatively by the arm, but Jacques intervened.
"Pray let the gentleman speak, Dick!" he said.

"It will ease his feelings perhaps." "No!" broke in Hilary breathlessly.

"No, no! I won't listen! I tell you I won't!" facing the big man almost fiercely.