"He'll have to go now," he said, gurgling like an amused baby.
The Colonel looked him in the eyes. "Devil!" he said.
The engineer peeped up at him with something of the chuckle of the young cuckoo.
"Ah, don't you talk, Colonel! I'm not the only one."
"What you mean?" fiercely.
"What you told me Saturday night."
"I never betrayed my pal, whatever else."
"You would ha done," remorselessly. "Only you lost your nerve at the last moment. That's nothing to boast on."
The man's brazen cynicism revolted the Colonel.
"Ah, you don't know me," he muttered.