"However, there is still time to get you out of it.

Where is your horse ?" "Damn my horse!" answered Tren chard in a passion.

"You have spoiled everything!" "On the contrary," said Mr.Wilding tartly, "it seems you had done that very thoroughly before I arrived.

Whilst I am touched by the regard for me which has misled you into turning the tables on Blake and Westmacott, yet I do blame you for this betrayal of the Cause." "There was no help for it." "Why, no; and that is why you should have left matters where they stood." Trenchard stamped his foot; indeed, he almost danced in the excess of his vexation.

"Left them where they stood!" he echoed.