"By God! Oscard; what a pity! But I always knew it.

I knew it was quite hopeless from the first." He passed his brown hand nervously over his face, where the perspiration stood in beads.
"Yes," said Oscard slowly; "but I think we will go on all the same." "What!" cried Durnovo.

"Go on ?" "Yes," replied Guy Oscard; "we will go on, and if I find you trying to desert I'll shoot you down like a rat.".