I've nothing to say." "Nor me either, Paul," said Long Jim, "I can't remember another time in my life when I felt so little like talkin'." Long Jim leaned his head against the wall and half closed his eyes.

His manner expressed the utmost indifference.

Alvarez frowned, but he remembered that they were wholly in his power and he had plans.
"I'll change the words," he said, "but I repeat the question.

Where are your comrades ?" "I don't know," replied Paul, and feeling a sudden happy thrill of defiance he added: "They are probably somewhere arranging the details of our rescue." Alvarez frowned again.
"That is impossible," he said.

"Perhaps you do not know your position.