"If I ungag you, will you promise to make no outcry?" asked Joseph Farvel.
As Bob was nearly smothered, he nodded his head, whereupon the obnoxious gag was quickly removed.
"What do you mean by handling me in this fashion?" demanded the youth, as soon as he could speak.
"Now don't get on a high horse, or it will be the worse for you," replied Farvel, bitterly.
"I ask you a direct question and I expect a direct answer," went on Bob, indignantly.
"I brought you here to get some information from you, young man."
"You'll learn nothing from me."
"Perhaps I shall."
"I'll cut my tongue off before I tell anything."
"It's easy enough to talk that way now. But you'll change your tune presently."