He suggested that Courthope should help him to drive it, and to transport the prisoner to the gaol in the village.

One man must be left to protect the young ladies and the house; one man must help him with the team and its burden.

The speaker shrugged his shoulders, suggesting that it would be more suitable for Morin to remain, and said that for his part he would be much obliged and honoured if Courthope would accompany him.

Here some plain and easy compliments were thrown in about Courthope's strength and the generous activity he had displayed, but not a word concerning his temporary disgrace; if this man knew of it he did not regard it as of any importance.
He was a matter-of-fact young man, not much interested in Courthope as a stranger, immensely interested in the fact of the theft and all that concerned it.

At the slightest question he poured out excited information.