"For all I know 'tis an ambush." "No, no!" "In which event I shall see that you share it.

Or it may be a scheme to draw me from here, and then if harm be done while I am away----" "Harm?
What harm ?" Louis muttered.
"Any harm! If harm be done, I say, I shall then have you at hand to pay me for it.

So--both or neither!" For a moment Louis' hang-dog face--none the handsomer for the mark of the Syndic's cane--spelt refusal.

Then he changed his mind.

He nodded sulkily.