I've got you in my power, young man, but--' and here he came a step or two nearer to Harold, and dropping his voice to a whisper said: 'I sha'n't do nothin', nor say nothin' till you've gin your evidence, and if you hold your tongue I will.

You tickle me, and I'll tickle you! see!' Harold was too indignant to reply, and feeling that he was degrading himself every moment he spent in the presence of that man, he left the room without a word, and went to his own apartment, but not to sleep, for never had he spent so wretched a night as that which followed his interview with Peterkin.

Of what the man could do to him, he had no fear.

His anxiety was all for Jerrie.

Where did she find the diamonds, and for whom did she keep silence so long?
and what would be said of the act when it was known, as it might be, though not from him?
Two or three times he arose and lighted the gas, examined the diamonds carefully to see if there were not some mistake.