"On your honor, Jack, it's not Gandil?"
"On my honor."
"But some one has broken you up."
"No, I—"
"Don't lie. Why, even while you look at me your color changes. You're pale one minute and red the next. Some one has crossed you, Jack. And whoever crosses you crosses me, by God! Out with his name! Is it Branch?"
"No."
"Then it's big Patterson."
"No."
"I have it! Mansie! There's always something of the sneak about him that I never liked."
"No, no!"