- [first title card]
- Title Card: Here is a tale of two school-boys who made a pact of loyalty. One of them kept it - at a price.
- Headmaster: You boys can no doubt guess why I have sent for you. This girl has brought a charge - a most serious charge.
- Title Card: Downhill - till what was left of him was thrown to the rats of a Marseilles dockside.
- Black Landlady: Best take him back to London this trip. He got friends there - mobbe they give you something.
- Black Dockworker: He's dotty - he's seein' things.