“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.