"You shall tell.

Who was it ?" Dick turned from him in horror, and would have hurried away, but Mr Marston caught his arm.
"Stop a moment, Dick Winthorpe," he said.

"I must have a few words with you before we part.

It is plain enough that all these outrages are directed against the persons who are connected with the drainage scheme, and that their lives are in danger.

Now I am one of these persons, and to gratify the petty revenge of a set of ignorant prejudiced people who cannot see the good of the work upon which we are engaged, I decline to have myself made a target.