CHAPTER EIGHTEEN.
DICK CONSPIRES TO DEFEAT THE ENDS OF JUSTICE.
Dick, on quitting the Captain's levee, retired in anything but exalted spirits to Cresswell's study.
He didn't care to face the Den that evening.

Not that he was afraid of Rule 5, or cared a snap what anybody there had to say about his conduct.
But he wasn't sure himself whether he had made a mistake or not.

He hated being in a corner.

He had no natural antipathy to doing what was right, but he didn't like being pinned down to it.

He didn't go to the levee because he was desperately in love with law and order, and it was a shame for any one to suppose he had.