He smiled as one who has had healthy exercise.
'It is no use,' he told me, with a shrug.

'I beat them well, and every one of them confessed that he alone, and not another, was the thief.
Each, as his turn came, wished to stay my hand at any cost.' He sank down on a sofa which was in the court.

'What further is your Honour's will ?' he asked.

'I will beat anyone.

The story is so bad for the hotel.