“You shall pay dearly for that blow,” he said.
Burt laughed.
“I am quite accustomed to being threatened,” he remarked.
“I never make idle threats.”
“Don’t talk like that.”
“I will if I feel so disposed.”
“Then you better not feel so disposed, unless you want more of the same treatment,” said the detective.
Barry glared at his companion, who had leisurely seated himself. Billy also dropped into a chair, but he did not know why he did so. Flight was out of the question. Had it been night it would have been very different.
Now Sixth Avenue was crowded with shoppers, and he could not go very far without being stopped with a short turn.
“I can’t see,” remarked Billy, “why you should choose to make me a prisoner. It is possible that this Abyssinian may have some nefarious scheme afloat, but I am not a party to it.”