Very well, my friend! Now listen! You want to ruin me! Well, if I go, the Bekwando Company shall go too, you understand! Ruin for me shall mean ruin for Mr.Scarlett Trent--ah, ruin and disgrace.

It shall mean imprisonment if I can bring it about, and I have friends! Don't you know that you are guilty of fraud?
You sold what wasn't yours and put the money in your pocket! You left your partner to rot in a fever swamp, or to be done to death by those filthy blacks.

The law will call that swindling! You will find yourself in the dock, my friend, in the prisoners' dock, I say! Come, how do you like that, Mr.Scarlett Trent?
If you leave this room with him, you are a ruined man.

I shall see to it." Trent swung him out of the way--a single contemptuous turn of the wrist, and Da Souza reeled against the mantelpiece.

He held out his hand to Monty and they left the room together..