"Yes, as you see. What are you doing here?"
"Why do you ask me that question—you who captured me?"
"I didn't capture you, Brady. It was my friends here."
"But why?"
"Oh, they want to ask you a few questions, and as they don't speak English, I must do the asking."
"Hurry up, then. Can't those infernal nippers be taken off my neck?"
Joe Ding seemed to think so, for he now removed them.
"You are trying to find money sunk in the sand, you and Old King Brady, aren't you?" he demanded.
"Who told you that?" asked Harry.
"Do you deny it?"