“In case I might need them,” said Captain Jack, grinning.
“Need them? I do not understand you,” said Redgill, turning red.
“But you may do so after a time.”
“Indeed! and what may be your business here, I should like to know? I do not allow persons of your standing to intrude upon me,” said Phillip, with a curling lip.
“Indeed! Lor how amazingly proud you’re getting,” Captain Jack answered, with a sneer, and tossing off a glass of wine. “I thought we should meet as friends.”
“Sir, I do not understand you,” said Phillip, trying to shake off his rough companion, much like a sparrow frets and struggles when in the talons of a hawk. “In truth, your room is much better than your company.”
“I dare say; that’s what a good many say. But, then, you see, the Crown can’t get along without such as me and my friends.”
“The Crown, sir? And what have I to do with you or the Crown, I should like to know? You wish to insinuate something; but, as a man about town, I know too much of you fellows.”
“Ha! ha! how clever you are. Lor, who’d a thought it?”
“Thought it? Thought what?”