"You are surprised that we know you so well, but remember that you left a visiting card with us in Albany, the time you sent an evil bullet past my head, and then proved too swift for Tayoga.

That's a little matter we must look into some time soon.

I don't understand why you wished me to leave the world prematurely.

It must surely have been in the interest of someone else, because I had never heard of you before in my life.

But we'll pass over the incident now as something of greater importance is to the fore.