The Captain replied with dignity: "Madame, I must do my duty."
"Your duty is to despoil us?"
"My duty is to collect all the articles for necessary conviction in the trial of Hadgi-Stavros."
"He will then be tried?"
"Since we have taken him."
"It seems to me that our jewels and our money would serve nothing, and that you have sufficient testimony to hang him. First of all, he captured two Englishwomen; what more is necessary?"
"It is necessary, Madame, that the forms of justice be observed."
"But, dear sir, among the articles which you demand there are some which I prize highly."
"The more reason, Madame, to confide them to my care."
"But if I had no watch I should never——"