"Then bet."
"All right, I'll bet."
"And you've never seen her?"
"Never."
"But you did see her once, and as an old detective with his eyes always peeping I supposed you recognized her."
"I reckon I would have recognized her if I had ever seen her. You have some other officer in your mind whom you confound with me."
"No, you once saw her with me. She was under cover, but of course you would fall to that."
"But I've never seen her."
"Then it's a bet?"
"Yes."