"Better have him searched, I should say.

Nine chances to one he's got the plan in his pocket." The officer--he was very young--hesitated.

Jed, who had not taken his eyes from the face of the man who had called him a German spy, spoke again.
"You haven't answered me yet," he drawled.

"You was only foolin' when you said that, wasn't you ?" The lieutenant, who may have felt that he had suddenly become a negligible factor in the situation, essayed to take command of it.
"Shut up," he ordered, addressing Winslow.

Then to the other, "Yes, call a guard.