"I don't wonder. But I did not come down here to talk nonsense. Where is your companion?"
"I told you before I didn't know," rejoined Herc, seemingly with all the carelessness in the world. For the second time the crafty foreign anarchist had failed to trap Herc into an admission that he and Ned had met.
"I'll go and get him," said Herr Muller, starting for the cabin.
"I wish you'd bring me a glass of water," said Herc.
"There is water in that stone jug," said Herr Muller, indicating the drugged receptacle.
"Oh, I drank all that a long time ago," rejoined Herc, "I'm very fond of water."
For a reason we know of, Herr Muller looked surprised.
"You drank all that water!" he exclaimed.
"Sure," rejoined Herc.