If it is as you represent it, I think you may be sure that the worst that will befall Mr.Butler will be dismissal from the service.

He deserves that.
But I hope I should be the last man to permit a British officer to be used as a scapegoat or a burnt-offering to the mob or to any Council of Regency.

By the way, who told you this about a scapegoat ?" "Captain Tremayne." "Captain Tremayne?
Oh, the man who killed Samoval ?" "He didn't," she cried.
On that almost fierce denial his lordship looked at her, raising his eyebrows in astonishment.
"But I am told that he did, and he is under arrest for it this moment--for that, and for breaking my order against duelling." "You were not told the truth, my lord.

Captain Tremayne says that he didn't, and if he says so it is so." "Oh, of course, Miss Armytage!" He was a man of unparalleled valour and boldness, yet so fierce was she in that moment that for the life of him he dared not have contradicted her.
"Captain Tremayne is the most honourable man I know," she continued, "and if he had killed Samoval he would never have denied it; he would have proclaimed it to all the world." "There is no need for all this heat, my dear," he reassured her.

"The point is not one that can remain in doubt.