"I am not taking instructions."
"But I am giving you instructions, all the same. Now get out of here and don't stand on the order of your going, but just 'git.' Do you understand that?"
The visitor rose, when Jack suddenly seized a pillow from his bed and dealt the man a tremendous rap over the head. The pillow burst and the bran poured down over the man's face and eyes, and in the meantime Jack seized the man's weapon, and then seizing a second pillow gave him a second succession of raps until the man was blinded, and finally ceasing the detective sat down and watched his man clean his eyes and ears, and after a little coolly said:
"Go to the wash basin there, old man, and wash out the horse feed."
The man managed to find the basin and obeyed, and when his eyes were cleaned he looked and beheld our hero sitting there with a broad smile on his face.
"Do you know what you have done?" demanded the man.
"What have I done?"
"If you have committed no other crime, you have assailed an officer of the law in the performance of his duty."
"I am not sorry I've taught an officer of the law a lesson; I suppose you claim to be a detective?"
"I do."