"I think we can," added Tom, very mildly. "I don't believe you know what you are about."
"Leave that to me."
"Ernest, I know what you have done at your uncle's house," said he, in a whisper, as though he had possessed himself of a valuable secret.
"So do I."
"You robbed your uncle's safe," he continued, in the same confidential tone.
"That depends on whether the safe was his or mine," I answered, readily.
"Ernest, it is no use for you to play bluff with me. You know what you have done," he added, rather petulantly; and I saw he was disappointed because he had failed to make an impression upon me.
"No one knows better than I what I have done."
"You have taken money and valuable papers out of your uncle's safe."