"Swear to me on your honor that you know where it is."
"I swear it."
"How long have you known?"
"For about five minutes. A little while ago I did not know. A little fact has just come under my observation which has informed me."
He believed her. It was impossible for him to disbelieve her. Everything that she said in that fashion, looking you straight in the face, was the exact truth.
"Speak."
"It's for you to speak first. Swear that as soon as my promise is fulfilled, I shall be free."
The ruffian blinked. The idea of keeping an oath appeared comic to him; and Dorothy was quite aware that his oath had no value of any kind.
"I swear it," he said.
Then he repeated: "Speak. I can't quite make out what you are faking; but it doesn't strike me as being gospel truth. So I don't put much faith in it; and don't you forget it."