“You knew that before you sentenced me to twenty-four hours’ starvation.”
“Are you prepared now to explain your part in this business?”
“What business? What do you charge me with?”
His colleague bent and whispered to him; and a short but very heated altercation followed, which resulted in the bully ordering the other man out of the room.
Then he turned to me. “You’ll have to answer me.”
“We shall see about that,” I returned with a grin.
“I shall gaol you till you do.”
“Then we shall both be a good deal older when we meet again,” I retorted.
“You have a fancy to try a change of prisons?”
“I demand to see the British Consul and to be allowed to communicate with my friends.”