“And where is the Rampallo now?”
I smiled and shook my head. “I have been very frank as to what has occurred; but what is going to occur is my own business.”
“You say these men have let you make them prisoners?”
“They say so themselves here.”
“And they are absolutely in your power to deliver them up to the Government when you please?”
“Absolutely. And they will be given up and a full statement of the facts made, unless I determine otherwise.”
That hit him as hard as I intended.
“When?” he rapped out.
“That also I must leave you guessing. If you are under the belief that by keeping me here or doing me any sort of mischief you will prevent all this getting out, you are merely deluding yourself.”
He paused once more and then tossed up his hands. “You have left me no option,” he said with a sigh. “What do you wish me to write?”