"Yes, sir. I have answered so far, and I might as well now tell you all you wish to know. I suppose I will be allowed my liberty if I do?"
"You will be set free, when I have done with you, providing you leave the country at once."
"I will do that only too gladly."
"Very well. Now reply."
"Yes."
"There are twenty-one of your men in this room, besides yourself. There are twenty more in another house near here. All are prisoners. Now, how many more are there, in Mustushimi's employ, in the city of Washington?"
"He has fifty men in all, now, besides himself and me."
"So there are nine who are still at liberty?"
"Yes; if you have counted those who are prisoners correctly."
"You are sure that there are no more?"