Don't deny it, for I have the proofs.

Further, it was you who advised Sekukuni to kill us when we went down to his country to shoot the other day, because you were afraid that we should discover whence he got his guns." (This was a bow drawn at a venture, but the arrow went home, for I saw his jaw drop.) "Further, I believe you to be an illicit diamond buyer, and I believe also that you have again been arranging with the Basutos to make an end of us, though of these last two items at present I lack positive proof.

Now, Dr.Rodd, I ask you for the second time whether you are a person to accuse others of crimes and whether, should you do so, you will be considered a credible witness when your own are brought to light ?" "If I had been guilty of any of these things, which I am not, it is obvious that my partner must have shared in all of them, except the first.

So if you inform against me, you inform against him, and the father of Heda, whom your friend wishes to marry, will, according to your showing, be proved a gun-runner, a thief and a would-be murderer of his guests.

I should advise you to leave that business alone, Mr.Quatermain." The reply was bold and clever, so much so that I regarded this blackguard with a certain amount of admiration, as I answered-- "I shall take your advice if you take mine to leave another business alone, that of this young lady and her father, but not otherwise." "Then spare your breath and do your worst; only careful, sharp as you think yourself, that your meddling does not recoil on your own head.