2/20 He sat now with his handcuffed hands upon his lap, and his head sunk upon his breast, while he looked with his keen, twinkling eyes at the box which had been the cause of his ill-doings. Once he looked up at me with a gleam of something like humor in his eyes. "I don't believe that I can swing over the job. I give you my word on the book that I never raised hand against Mr.Sholto. It was that little hell-hound Tonga who shot one of his cursed darts into him. |