Still less could he evade his duty as captain to see things right.

The latter duty he might have put off on Mr Wakefield or the doctor.

But the mere reporting to them of the circumstances would fix the suspicions on Rollitt more pointedly than they were already, and certainly more pointedly than Yorke wished them to be.
"Dear Rollitt," he wrote, "I hope you will not resent my writing to tell you of a rumour which is afloat very injurious to you, and one which I feel quite sure you can dispose of at once.

I would not write about it, only I am very anxious for the sake of everybody you should deny it, and so shut up others who would be glad enough if it were true.

A sum of money, about L4 10 shillings, belonging to the Club funds has been lost from Fisher major's room.