"You're lying to me!" Norton growled. "Out with the truth now"—his grip tightened—"out with it, or I'll choke it out of you!"
Andy grasped the tightening fingers and drew them down:
"Fer Gawd's sake, major, doan' do dat!"
"Has Tom been back here during the past weeks to see Miss Helen?"
Andy struggled with the desperate fingers:
"Doan' do dat, major—doan' do dat! I ain't holdin' nuttin' back—I let it all out, sah!"
The grip slackened:
"Then out with the whole truth!"
"Yassah. Des tell me what ye wants me ter say, sah, an' I sho say hit!"
"Bah! You miserable liar!" Norton cried in disgust, hurling him to the floor, and striding angrily from the room. "You're all in this thing, all of you! You're all in it—all in it!"