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`` I will get rid of him , somehow , before long , '' he said . `` I will pay him out for his meddling , as sure as my name 's Richard Horton . I will get him out of this before three months are gone . '' The next morning at breakfast , Richard received a message from the squire that he was to be present at ten o'clock in the justice room , and accordingly , at that hour he presented himself there with a confident air , but with an inward feeling of misgiving . The squire was sitting at his table , with his clerk beside him . Mr. Robertson was in a chair a short distance off . The constable was standing by the side of James Walsham , at the other end of the room .