I hope you haven't communicated anything to these men." "Oh, what's the good of remaining silent any longer ?" asked Collins surlily.
"What's the good!" repeated the lawyer with a rising inflection.

"Do you wish to spoil everything?
Do you want to condemn yourself ?" "What!" shouted Collins, now beside himself with rage.

"Condemn myself! What do you mean ?" "I mean that if you say a single word, I shall withdraw as your counsel and permit the law to take its course." "Then you're trying to intimate that I killed Whitmore!" Collins took a step forward, a look of horrified amazement on his face.

"So there's a conspiracy now to shift it on to me--eh! Now that I've been robbed and left penniless--" "You're not penniless," interjected the lawyer.

"Your money is intact." Collins's eyes expanded into an expression of incredulous wonder.
"What are you talking about ?" he demanded savagely.