“Prove it.”
“Do you want to make us all out liars, then?”
“I can prove it!” said Redgill, all the time speaking in a forced voice, quite unnatural to him; “and if you put me to the test, I can tell you where the murderer is now at this present moment.”
“Ha!”
“Where?”
“There’s a good reward offered, tell us at once,” said Captain Jack and others.
“You have not to look far for him,” said Redgill, with a triumphant laugh.
Bob Bertram’s blood now ran cold.
“I am betrayed,” he thought, “and must fight my way out of this.”
“And who told you?” said Bates.