CHAPTER Fourteen ROCCO ANSWERS SOME QUESTIONS.
ROCCO turned round with the swiftness of a startled tiger, and gave Theodore Racksole one long piercing glance.
'D--n!' said Rocco, with as pure an Anglo-Saxon accent and intonation as Racksole himself could have accomplished.
The most extraordinary thing about the situation was that at this juncture Theodore Racksole did not know what to say.

He was so dumbfounded by the affair, and especially by Rocco's absolute and sublime calm, that both speech and thought failed him.
'I give in,' said Rocco.

'From the moment you entered this cursed hotel I was afraid of you.

I told Jules I was afraid of you.

I knew there would be trouble with a man of your kidney, and I was right; confound it! I tell you I give in.