"For de 'ouse?"
"For all."
The deaf man shook his head.
"Forty-five!" said the Colonel.
"What a lie? For what you tell me 'What a lie?' I don't tell you no lie."
"Non, non! I give you forty-five!" shouted the Colonel.
Charlie shook his head again.
"Fifty!"
He shook it again.
The figures rose and rose to—