“Am I?”
“Yes, of course you are but go on—I want to hear all you’ve got to say.”
“Why did you take my money, and then arrest me?”
“Because I wanted the cash; and, in the next place, I wished to save my own neck. Colonel Blood swore to hang one or the other, so I thought you might do better than myself, you perceive.”
“But suppose I were to tell Colonel Blood what I have done for you?”
“He wouldn’t believe you, that’s all.”
“I don’t know that.”
“But I do, though. If I had not thought and known so, I shouldn’t have captured you alive.”
“What then?”
“Why, would have so arranged it that you would have been a dead man, that’s all.”