The man's as nervous as he can be now, I am pretty sure of that.

Don't do anything that might put him on his guard.

Mind, for all we know he may be an honest man.

To listen to what these fellows have to say doesn't mean that he's prepared to fall in with their schemes.

By the by, you've nothing about the place, I suppose, if you should be raided ?" "Not a thing," was the confident reply.