Then, to prevent the possibility of error, the one asks the other a question--on what subject it matters not, providing that before he speaks, he coughs slightly.
"You must remember that such communication is not made lightly.

Were it to be so, it would soon attract notice.

It is used when you want to know whether you can trust a man.

It is as much as to say, 'Are you a friend?
Can I have confidence in you?
Will you help me ?'--and you can see that there are many occasions on which such knowledge may be most useful, even to the saving of life." "I do indeed see it," Dick said, "and greatly are we indebted to you for telling us of it." They remained talking with their host, whose name was, he told them, Pertaub, until darkness came on.

They had shared his rice with him, and had requested him to lay in such provision as was necessary for them; and as soon as it became dark they went out, leaving their guns behind them.
Busy as the main streets were when they had before passed through them, they were very much more so now.