“Why, what is all this for?”
“It has come to the colonel’s ears that you have been playing false to him, and you know he never forgives an enemy.”
“The devil!” said Jack; “do you mean to say, then, that he knows all about Redgill?”
“He does; and since he has escaped, he has made up his mind to have revenge on you.”
Old Bates smiled like an old ogre as he pulled out of his capacious pocket a sealed document.
“Do you know what this is?” said Bates.
“It looks like a warrant.”
“And so it is—you are not mistaken—it is for your own apprehension.”
“You are joking.”
“I was never more serious in all my life.”