I was a lieutenant in the Thetis at the time, and I suppose, because I did not then interfere on his behalf, he has now trumped up this accusation against me, an accusation I defy him to prove." "You are mistaken, Lieutenant Horton," the admiral said.

"Captain Walsham is not your accuser.

Nay, more, he has himself committed a grave dereliction of duty in trying to screen you, and by endeavouring to destroy the principal evidence against you.

Mr.Middleton overheard a conversation between the Canadian pilot and the French general, and the former described how he had been liberated by an English officer, who assisted him to escape by a rope from the porthole in his cabin." "I do not see that that is any evidence against me," Richard Horton said.

"In the first place, the man may have been lying.