“We’ll see presently. To begin with, Where’s that piece of paper?”
“What piece of paper?”
“Curse you!” exclaimed Snags, in a fury. “Are you trying to dodge that yet? Come, tell me, before I——”
And he clutched his pistol threateningly.
“I declare to you,” said Leonard, earnestly, “that I don’t know what you mean. And that is all I could say if you held a knife to my throat.”
Snags looked at him in wonder.
“You’re a game one!” he muttered; “or else I’ve made an unaccountable blunder.”
“The latter is probably the case,” said Leonard; “for what earthly object you can have in capturing me and bringing me here, is more than I can imagine. If you’ll just tell me what you want, and then release me, I’ll be greatly obliged.”
“Well, you know, after he was killed——”
“Who?”