Sibby: That’s it, that is it. Let him tell it out now.
Cooney: Will you have me ask it as often as the hairs of my head? If I get vexed I will make you answer me.
Nestor: It seems to me to have set fire to a rick, but I am well able to quench it after. There is no man in South Africa, or that came from South Africa, or that ever owned a mine there at all. Where is the man bought the bird, are you asking? There he is standing among us on this floor. (Points to Cooney.) That is himself, the very man!
Cooney: (Advancing a step.) What is that you are saying?
Nestor: I say that no one came in here but yourself.
Cooney: Did he say or not say there was a rich man came in?
Sibby: He did, surely.
Nestor: To make up a plan....
Cooney: I know well you have made up a plan.
Nestor: To give it unknownst....