“Let the past go, won’t you?”
“Perhaps.”
“You are more than even with me. I never wore such a pair of ‘bungers’ before in my life.”
“Through your interference I lost a prisoner,” said Burt.
“Enoch Cook and I are old friends.”
“Oh, that’s your excuse?”
“Not exactly.”
“Well?”
“You gave me your word you did not intend to arrest him.”
“Neither I did when I first came here,” replied Burt.