You don't know what they can do." I grew hot with indignation.
"Don't say anything, please, of what I have said to you.

Promise me, you won't say anything.

Promise me.

I never complained, I didn't." His excitement was a revelation.
"All right," I replied, to soothe him.
"No, but promise me, seriously," he repeated.

"You must promise me.
Think, you have my confidence, it is private what I have said." He was evidently frightened out of self-control.
"All right," I said, "I will not tell; but I'll get the facts from the others and not from you." "Oh, Frank," he said, "you don't know what they do.