"You found him lying there?"
"Yes."
"But that man, but a moment ago, denounced you as the murderer."
"The man did not know what he was saying."
"You must give an account of yourself."
The man in the rubber coat hastened to say:
"Mine were but idle words."
"Ah! you did not mean what you said?" remarked the leader of the intruding party.
"I did not."
"You two men are our prisoners."