"I warn you, you'll spend the rest of your lives on a prison rock if you don't answer!"
Tom finally turned and looked straight at the governor. "May I speak, sir?"
"Only if you tell me what you did with Professor Sykes," replied Hardy angrily.
Bush pulled a paralo-ray gun from his belt and said, "All right, march!"
"You have not asked us, sir," said Tom coolly, "to tell our side of the story. You are accusing us of a crime and have already assumed that we are guilty. We are not."
"Do you deny it?" asked Hardy.
"We deny everything," said Tom flatly.