"It means that all the world knows you're a married man, you blasted wretch," stormed Johnny. "It means you kindiddled the woman away from me with lies and cunning and thought to get her out of England and ruin her, and then, no doubt, fling her off, like you flung off your lawful wife. It means you're found out for what you are--the scum of the earth. And she's going to know it, and see you where you stand, and hear where your filthy plots and wickedness was going to land her. And if she don't sclow down your face for you when she knows and tear your damned eyes out, she ought to!" Maynard looked at the furious man, but did not answer. Then Mr. Chaffe intervened. "That'll do, John Bamsey," he said. "Us have carried out our work in a high spirit so far and we don't want no crooked language." "Crooked language be the right sort for crooked deeds I reckon," declared Mr. Callicott, the prize-fighter--a sturdy and snake-headed youth who had assisted the others. "If it's true this bloke's married and was going to run away and do bigamy with an innocent girl, then you can't talk too coarse to him, I reckon." "You're right to be angered, but righteous wrath must keep its temper, Callicott," explained Arthur. "Now hear me talk to the man and show him how it is with him. He be dazed, as you see, and stares through us and looks beyond, as if we was ghosts." "He knows very well we ban't ghosts," said Jerry. "You see him," continued Mr. Chaffe, as though he were lecturing on a specimen--"you see him in the first flush of his surprise--gazing out at the risen sun and too much knocked over even to make a case." "What sort of case should he make--a man that meant to seduce another chap's sweetheart?" asked John Bamsey. "If he haven't already," suggested Mr. Callicott. "Hear me, and let him hear me," answered Arthur; and then he turned to Maynard.