"I can't talk pi-jaw--on this subject or any other.

You see--I'm a rotter myself." "You, sir!" Toby lifted his head suddenly and stared at him with eyes that blazed passionately blue in the starlight.

"Don't believe it!" he said.

"It isn't true." Saltash grinned a little.

His face had the dreary look of something lost that a monkey's sometimes wears.