"You astonish me, and I don't believe you. Nixon wouldn't send a kid like that."
"We won't argue the point. That boy must be released!"
"He is not in the mine."
"I intend to go down and see."
"Oh, very well; you can go!"
"You must go with us."
"I have not time."
In reply, Burdoch put a pistol to the side of his head.
"Be careful," said the affrighted superintendent, "it might go off!"
"Will you go down?"