“You are alone?”
“Why do you ask that question?”
“Answer me.”
“I don’t care to.”
He eyed me savagely.
“You had better!” he cried. “Do you know you are in my power, boy?”
“No, I don’t.”
“Well, you are.”
“I don’t see it,” I replied stoutly.
“You are smart, but not smart enough,” went on Mr. Norton; “and I want to know at once whether you are with us or against us.”