"The fact is, you suspicion him ?" "I suspicion a good deal, maybe," he admitted.

"After all, even a man of that degree's only a man, when all's said and done, and there might be reasons that you and me knows nothing about.

Let me ask you a question," he went on, edging nearer at me across the table.

"Have you mentioned it to a soul ?" I made a mistake at that, but he was on me so sharp, and his manner was so insistent, that I had the word out of my lips before I thought.
"No!" I replied.

"I haven't." "Nor me," he said.