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`` All I mean to say is , I am sure that gentleman was not Captain Churchill ; and so you will find , if you inquire . Whoever he was , Mr. Brown aided his escape , and prevented me from doing my duty . '' `` Your duty , sir , was to obey Mr. Brown , '' replied the Earl , sternly ; `` for that I shall take care that you are punished ; and if it should prove that this gentleman was really Captain Churchill , you shall be dismissed from your office . You will attend here again at two o'clock , by which time I shall have written to Captain Churchill , to know whether he was the person present or not . -- Now leave the room . '' Arden slunk doggedly away , seeing that Wilton 's star happened to be in the ascendant . Had he known how much it was so , however , having often heard the Earl speak sharply and discourteously to the young gentleman , he would have been more surprised even than he was at the change which had taken place .