He felt, also, that he could meet neither Mr.Grey nor his brother without personally attacking them.

All the world might perish, but he, with his last breath, would declare himself to be Captain Mountjoy Scarborough, of Tretton Park; and though he knew at the moment that he must perish,--as regarded social life among his comrades,--unless he could raise five hundred pounds from his brother, yet he felt that, were he to meet his brother, he could not but fly at his throat and accuse him of the basest villany.
At that moment, at the corner of Bond Street, he did meet his brother.
"What is this ?" said he, fiercely.
"What is what ?" said Augustus, without any fierceness.

"What is up now ?" "I have just come from my father." "And how is the governor?
If I were he I should be in a most awful funk.
I should hardly be able to think of anything but that man who is to come to-morrow with his knives.

But he takes it all as cool as a cucumber." There was something in this which at once shook, though it did not remove, the captain's belief, and he said something as to the property.
Then there came questions and answers, in which the captain did not reveal the story which had been told to him, but the barrister did assert that he had as yet heard nothing as to anything of importance.

As to Tretton, the captain believed his brother's manner rather than his words.