If you do it will be a prison term for you as sure as I stand here.

Do you understand ?" Apparently Phineas understood.

His face was not as red as it had been and there was a different look in his eye.

Jed's rough handling had not frightened him, but the Major's cold, incisive tones and the threat of a term in prison had their effect.
Nevertheless he could still bluster.
"You can't talk to me that way," he sputtered.

"I--I ain't scared of you even if you are all dressed up in fuss and feathers like a hand-organ monkey.