Perhaps they do! Wait until after I have dealt with them.

Then you shall take me to the place! After that your criminal relations shall be pardoned! Here is money.

Go and wait for me at the place we spoke of when we talked before.'" We each cross-examined him in turn, but could not make him change his story in any essential.

He merely exaggerated the parts that he guessed might please us, and begged to be allowed to run before Schillingschen could break loose and get after him.
By noontime, when we gave him his second meal, Schillingschen had made up his own mind that his case was desperate and called for heroic remedy.
"All right," he growled.

"I need that diary.