But I do decidedly object to being shot by a desperate man, when there is not the least necessity for it.
"Very well," I said, lying back in my seat, "you have played your game with your usual cleverness, and I suppose I deserve what I have got for having been such a consummate idiot as to give you the opportunity you wanted.

Now, what are you going to do, and where are you going to take me ?" "You will know everything in a few minutes," he answered.

"In the meantime I am glad to see that you take things so sensibly.

In after days you will laugh over this little incident." "Whatever I may think in the future," I replied, "just at present it is confoundedly unpleasant." Ten minutes later the cab came to a standstill, there was the sound of opening gates, and a moment later we drove into a stone-paved courtyard..