“Never.”
“Now,” said the detective, “recover your wife if you can, but do no injury to this man.”
“I would not take my wife back if she were to beg me to do so. I am a man of honor.”
The keeper of the Parisian den of thieves actually believed himself a man of honor.
“If you kill Kidd, I shall trail you down and bring you to the gallows.”
“The threat does not frighten me, monsieur,” said Pierre.
“I can put you under restraint for threatening this man’s life.”
Jacquet’s jaw dropped.
“Well,” he said, “I will promise not to harm him unless in self-defense.”
Burt smiled at the Frenchman’s fear of prison. By stabbing Jacquet, Enoch had placed himself within the pale of the law.