"Do you threaten me, you low scoundrel?" he exclaimed.
"Yes, I do."
"What can you say, except that I hired you to commit a crime—that is, I employed you to kill Jack Harkaway?"
"I shall not go upon that."
"If you did no one would believe you."
"Possibly not," said Bambino, calmly. "But, my lord, suppose I said that you had a wife alive."
Again Maltravers changed color perceptibly.
"If you did you would lie," he replied.
"Oh! no. I am perfectly conversant with your little marriage in France."
"Yes. I have talked to you about it, possibly, in my confidential moments."