ce. Captain Scarborough
asserted his rights as a free agent, declaring himself capable, as far
as the law was concerned, of going wherever he pleased without reference
to Mr. Hart; and told that gentleman that any interference on his part
would be regarded as an impertinence. "But my money--my money, which you
must pay this minute, if I please to demand it."

"You did not lend me five-and-twenty thousand pounds without security."

"It is forty-five--now, at this moment."

"Take it, get it; go and put it in your pocket. You have a lot of
writings; turn then into cash at once. Take them to any other Jew in
London and sell them. See if you can get your five-and-twenty thousand
pounds for them,--or twenty-five thousand shillings. You certainly
cannot get five-and-twenty pence for them here, though you had all the
police of this royal kingdom to support you. My father says that the
bonds I gave you are not worth the paper on which they were written. If
you are cheated, so have I been. If he has robbed you, so has he me. But
I have not robbed you, and you can do nothing to me."

"I vill stick to you like beesvax," said Mr. Hart, while the look of
good-humor left his countenance for a moment. "Like beesvax! You shall
not escape me again."

"You will have to follow me to Constantinople, then."

"I vill follow you to the devil."

"You are likely to go before me there. But for the present I am off to
Constantinople, from whence I intend to make an extended tour to Mount
Caucasus, and then into Thibet. I shall be very glad of your company,
but cannot offer to pay the bill. When you and your companions have
settled yourselves comfortably at Tretton, I shall be happy to come and
see you there. You will have to settle the matter first with my younger
brother, if I may make bold to call that well-born gentleman my brother
at all. I wish you a good-morning, Mr. Hart." Upon that he walked out
into the hall, and thence down the steps into the garden in front of the
establishment, his own attendant following him.

Mr. Hart also followed him, but did not immediately seek to renew the
conversation. If he meant to show any sign of keeping his threat and of
sticking to the captain like beeswax, he must show his purpose at once.
The captain for a time walked round the little enclosure in earnest
conversation with the attendant, and Mr. Hart stood on the steps
watching them. Play was over, at any rate for that day, as far as the
captai