"You imagine we're criminals because you're one yourself! The difference between your offer and ours is that you're bluffing and we know it, whereas we're not bluffing by as much as a hair, and the quicker you see that the better for you!" "Oh, rats! Let's take him in with us to Kisumu!" said I, and at that Professor Schillingschen capitulated.
"Very well," he said.

"Kurtz und gut.

I will leave the country.

Permit me to take only food enough, and my porters, and one gun!" "No guns!" said Fred promptly.
Schillingschen sighed resignedly, and we went out of the tent to talk over ways and means.

In spite of our recent experience of Germany's colonial government we were still so ignorant of the workings of the mens germanica that we took his surrender at face value.
The problem of getting him down to the lake shore safely was none too simple.