It was not Daniel Dabbs, though Daniel, partly from genuine indignation, partly in consequence of slowly growing personal feeling against the Mutimers, had certainly supplied Richard's enemies with corroborative details.

Under ordinary circumstances Mutimer's change of fortune would have seemed to his old mates a sufficient explanation of his behaviour to Emma Vine; they certainly would not have gone out of their way to condemn him.

But Richard was by this time vastly unpopular with most of those who had once glorified him.

Envy had had time to grow, and was assisted by Richard's avoidance of personal contact with his Hoxton friends.

When they spoke of him now it was with sneers and sarcasms.