I require you to accompany me for that purpose, and to send off to them immediately a message at my dictation." "Tschaa! Suppose you show me your authority ?" "Certainly!" I answered.
Realizing that he wasn't in immediate danger of life he had returned his own pistol to his pocket.

So I showed him the muzzle of mine, and he divined without a sermon on the subject that it would go off and shoot accurately unless he showed discretion.

He didn't offer to move when Jeremy's agile fingers found his pocket and flicked out the mother-of- pearl-handled, rim-fire thing with which he had previously kept his courage warm.
"I was told not to trust you too far," I explained.

"I was warned in advance that you might question my credentials.

You are said to be jealous of interference.