He stepped to the door, opened it, said, "No matter," and closed it again.
He returned with an affectation of carelessness.

"You are right.

I don't know that I'm called upon to make a scene here which the LAW can do for me as well elsewhere.

It will settle pretty quick whether you've got the right to those letters, and whether you've taken the right way to get them sir." "I have no desire to evade any responsibility in this matter, legal or otherwise," said Carroll, coldly, rising to his feet.
"Look here," said Prince, suddenly, with a return of his brusque frankness; "you might have ASKED me for those letters, you know." "And you wouldn't have given them to me," said Carroll.
Prince laughed.

"That's so! I say, Captain.