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"If they had had facts--I mean, real facts--or at least grounds

for suspicion, then they would certainly have tried to hide their

game, in the hope of getting more (they would have made a search

long ago besides). But they have no facts, not one. It is all

mirage--all ambiguous. Simply a floating idea. So they try to

throw me out by impudence. And perhaps, he was irritated at

having no facts, and blurted it out in his vexation--or perhaps

he has some plan... he seems an intelligent man. Perhaps he

wanted to frighten me by pretending to know. They have a

psychology of their own, brother. But it is loathsome explaining

it all. Stop!"