your own fault; you’ve run yourself into this. I did my best to keep you out of it. But in you come, and spill first blood.”
“I don’t regret it,” said I.
“Oh, you’re damned mule enough not to regret anything!” cried Rattray. “I see the sort you are; yet but for me, I tell you plainly, you’d be a dead man now.”
“I can’t think why you interfered.”
“You’ve heard the reason. I won’t have murder done here if I can prevent it; so far I have; it rests with you whether I can go on preventing it or not.”
anything to-morrow morning. I let him have it, I can tell you. Varlet! Caitiff! But if you bolt off on the head of it, I shall go back and sack him into the bargain!”
I assured him I had my own reasons for wishing to retire early. He could have no conception of my weakness, my low and nervous condition