The Riddle Of The Sands - Childers Robert Erskine ... - Cove Systems

the two friends now had a mind to make their
story public; and it was about this that
'Carruthers' wished for my advice. The great
drawback was that an Englishman, bearing an
honoured name, was disgracefully implicated,
and that unless infinite delicacy were used,
innocent persons, and, especially, a young
lady, would suffer pain and indignity, if his
identity were known. Indeed, troublesome
rumours, containing a grain of truth and a mass
of falsehood, were already afloat.
After weighing both sides of the question, I
gave my vote emphatically for publication.
The personal drawbacks could, I thought, with
tact be neutralized; while, from the public
point of view, nothing but good could come
from submitting the case to the common sense
of the country at large. Publication, there-fore,
was agreed upon, and the next point was the
form it should take 'Carruthers', with the
concurrence of Mr 'Davies', was for a bald
exposition of the essential facts, stripped of
their warm human envelope. I was strongly