"Yes, but——"
"I'll teach you to tell lies to me. Come and see me at nine o'clock."
Very miserably Gordon continued his work. After about a quarter of an hour:
"Caruthers, will you take six, or a hundred lines?"
Gordon thought it was not the thing to take lines:
"Six."
"Will you have it now or afterwards?"
"Now."
"Hunter, go and get a cane from my study."
Trembling with fear, Gordon heard Hunter's feet ring down the stone passage, saw him running across to the studies by the old wall. There was silence again; then the sound of feet; Hunter returned.