I could however perceive that one of them was the diabolical Gines.

I determined never to enter into a contest of accusation and defence with the execrable Gines.

Mr. Falkland had taken the infernal Gines into his pay, a man critically qualified for the service in which he was now engaged, by the unfeeling brutality of his temper, by his habits of mind at once audacious and artful, and by the peculiar animosity and vengeance he had conceived against me.

I stood detected in part of my artifice; and Gines, though still uncertain, was every moment more and more confirmed in his suspicions.