Then you'll take the stuff where I tell you to.
Eh?
Isn't that so ?" He darted ahead of Captain Plum with a quick alert movement.

"Will you please follow me, sir ?" For an instant Captain Plum's impulse was to hold back.

In that instant it suddenly occurred to him that he was lending himself to a rank imposition.

At the same time he was filled with a desire to go deeper into the adventure, and his blood thrilled with the thought of what it might hold for him.
"Are you coming, sir ?" The little old man had stopped a dozen paces away and turned expectantly.
"I tell you again that you've got the wrong man, Dad!" "Will you follow me, sir ?" "Well, if you'll have it so--damned if I won't!" cried Captain Plum.

He felt that he had relieved his conscience, anyway.