"What is your promise?"
"I promised to meet you again."
"I don't recall."
"Don't you perceive?"
"Perceive what?"
"That you are in a bad hole."
Again the master of the "Nancy" made a certain movement, when the detective repeated in a peculiar warning tone:
"Don't."
"You are a revenue officer?" said Denman.
"Aha! now you begin to open up!"