“‘You will tell me true this one thing?’
“‘Yes, half-a-dozen, if you like.’
“‘What you going to do now?’
“‘Do?’ repeated Donnymore, with the light of consternation in his eyes, for Pegon’s words seemed to have a strange significance for him.
“‘Yaes, what you going to do?’
“‘Oh, I don’t know.’
“The man looked nervously around him, and eyed the door suspiciously, as if he fully expected to see a body of police standing in its immediate vicinity.
“‘Why not try change of air?’
“‘I’m well enough.’
This was said rather surlily.