"I have nothing to say."
"You will have something to say before I am done with you," he added, with a fierce oath, as he sprang to his feet. "You robbed my trunk, and took fifteen hundred dollars in gold from it. Do you know how to speak the truth?"
"I have always succeeded tolerably well in doing so."
"What did you do with the money you took from my trunk?"
"I should feel obliged to speak the truth if I said anything."
"You had better do it. I know that the money I lost was in my trunk when I left my state-room, the day I put you in there."
"I had a similar confidence in regard to my own trunk on a certain occasion," I answered.
"I'm not to be trifled with. I'll give you till to-morrow morning to make up your mind. If you don't tell me then what you did with that money, I'll give you the rope's end every hour till you are willing to answer me."
"I will think of it."
"If you have thrown it overboard, I will throw you over after it."