“A-r-r-r-r!” snarled Durant, shaking his revolver under ’Arry’s nose. “We have caught you zis time!”
“I’ll ’ave to hadmit as ’ow you has, gents,” was the cool reply; “but I’d like to hask why you ’ave caught me?”
“You know very well,” said Linton, also menacing ’Awkins with a revolver. “There is no reason why you should ask us.”
“Gents, not wishin’ to be himpolite, I will confess as ’ow it’s likely I hought to know, but I am sorry to hadmit that I do not.”
“Bah!” cried Durant. “Zat ees one lie!”
“I am not hable to prove that you hare mistaken, but if you will untie my ’ands, I will make a strong hargument,” said ’Arry.
“Cæsar!” thought the boy outside the window, in admiration. “That fellow has nerve! I wouldn’t have thought it of him.”
“Why are we wasting time?” asked Glanworth, nervously. “I do not relish this kind of work, and——”
“You will have to take your share in it,” declared Linton; “for you are as much in danger by this man as any of the rest of us.”
“We all be in ze great dangare,” said Durant. “We be in dangare so long as zis dev-val live.”