Phineas caught his breath and opened his mouth.

Major Grover stepped in front of him and leveled a forefinger straight at the crimson Babbitt nose.
"Stop!" he ordered, sharply.
"Stop?
What right have you got to tell me to stop?
By--" "Stop! Listen to me.

I don't know what you've been saying about this lady--" "I ain't been saying anything, except what I know, and that is that--" "Stop! And I don't care.

But I know about you, sir, because it is my business to know.

The Government has had its eye on you for some time and it has asked me to look into your record.