Turning on him, he said, sternly: "If you'll speak up and answer us, truthfully, I'll make this ha'nt take off the curse.

But if you lie, in one word, he'll know it and he'll tell me, and--and then I'll turn him loose on you.

It's your one chance.

Want it ?" The youth fairly gabbled his eagerness to assent.
"Good!" said Brice, still holding Simon Cameron, lest the supposed devil spoil everything by rubbing against the prisoner's legs and purring.

"First of all:--how did you get in here ?" The boy gulped.