I felt it and, if you will remember, I said so.

I was a fool.

Good night, Captain." Hot and furiously angry at his own indecision which had placed him in this humiliating situation, he was striding towards the hall.

Captain Elisha seized his arm.
"Stay where you are, Jim!" he commanded.

"If the trouble's what you think it is, I'm more to blame than anybody else, and you sha'n't leave this house till I've done my best to square you." "Thank you; but I don't wish to be 'squared.' I've done nothing to be ashamed of, and I have borne as many insults as I can stand.