You must stand by me." "I was your friend; never a truer.

But I believed you to be a man of honour." Hartledon lifted his hat from his brow; as though the brow alone were heavy enough just then.

At least the thought struck Mr.Carr.
"I have been drawn unwittingly into this, as I have into other things.

I never meant to do wrong.

As to dishonour, Heaven knows my nature shrinks from it." "If your nature does, you don't," came the severe answer.