If I had known it was a cul de sac--however, there isn't any excusing a blunder like that, let it go.

Charge it up to profit and loss.
Of course, I was indignant, and swore I had just come ashore from a long voyage, and all that sort of thing--just to see, you know, if it would deceive that slave.

But it didn't.

He knew me.

Then I reproached him for betraying me.