"War to the knife again!"
"I hope you do not take me for a fool."
"Not at all, save only that all villains are fools in that they go wrong instead of right."
"Have a care, Bristol! Some word of yours may cost your life without a moment's notice. I am not the man to brook many such insults. I give you warning."
"Neither are you a coward, Red Rover. You would not shoot me down handcuffed as I am."
Again a murmur ran through the band.
"You have nothing more to propose?"
"No; I considered that proposition a sort of even exchange; that was all."
"An exchange? Where does the exchange come in, I would like to know? I do not see that I would be getting anything out of it."
"It would be giving me my life for yours. I could have picked you off easily when you entered that car after me, but spared you."