Who are you ?" "You wouldn't know if I told you, I said.

Keep quiet and speak only in answer to my questions." "All right.

Got anything loose about your person--I mean food, man-sized food, not canary-bird rations such as those bandits have been doling out to me ?" "You can't have anything now.

After we have gotten away from here I will try to dig up a snack for you.

Silence!" For the next several minutes neither the prisoner nor his mysterious friend uttered a word.