Lead me to Nizza's retreat instantly, or I will cut your throat." And seizing Chowles by the collar, he held the point of his sword to his breast.
"Use no violence," cried Chowles, struggling to free himself, "and I will take you wherever you please.

This way--this way." And he motioned as if he would take them upstairs.
"Do not think to mislead me, villain," cried Leonard, tightening his grasp.

"We have searched every room in the upper part of the house, and though we have discovered the whole of your ill-gotten hoards, we have found nothing else.

No one is there." "Well, then," rejoined Chowles, "since the truth must out, Sir Paul is in the next house.

But it is his own abode.