Do you for one instant suppose I am going to let you support him, and you a beggar ?" St.George made a lunge toward the speaker as if to strike him.

Had Rutter fired point-blank at him he could not have been more astounded.
For an instant he stood looking into his face, then whirled suddenly and swung wide the door.
"May I ask you, Talbot, to leave the room, or shall I?
You certainly cannot be in your senses to make me a proposition like that.

This thing has got to come to an end, and NOW! I wish you good-morning." The colonel lifted his hands in a deprecatory way.
"As you will, St.George." And without another word the baffled autocrat strode from the room..