And wasn't I right now ?" "Right ?" The Colonel was almost speechless.
"Be easy, now, be easy!" Mr.Blood implored him.

"It's an apoplexy ye'll be contacting if ye give way to heat like this." The planter thrust him aside with an imprecation, and stepping forward tore the palmetto leaf from the prisoner's back.
"In the name of humanity, now...." Mr.Blood was beginning.
The Colonel swung upon him furiously.

"Out of this!" he commanded.

"And don't come near him again until I send for you, unless you want to be served in the same way." He was terrific in his menace, in his bulk, and in the power of him.

But Mr.Blood never flinched.