Wild Jack
“The room to which I was taken was almost identical with that in which I had been quizzed about the party. There were two policemen again, and again one did the talking while the other listened.
The questions were all about Wild Jack and the outlaws. This confirmed what I had guessed from the conversation between the Sherrins—that the men in green were taken a good deal more seriously than contemptuous remarks about savages might indicate. It only reinforced the intention I had already forme...d not to tell them anything which could possibly be of value.
The interrogation was amiable to begin with but became distinctly less friendly when my answers proved unsatisfactory. No, I had no idea of the direction we had come in getting to Southampton. And no, I had no idea how many men were in Wild Jack’s band. More than twenty? More than fifty? A hundred? I shrugged helplessly.
The policeman doing the talking—like the one in the gatehouse, a bit flabby, I thought—advised me to be more cooperative.MoreLess
The questions were all about Wild Jack and the outlaws. This confirmed what I had guessed from the conversation between the Sherrins—that the men in green were taken a good deal more seriously than contemptuous remarks about savages might indicate. It only reinforced the intention I had already forme...d not to tell them anything which could possibly be of value.
The interrogation was amiable to begin with but became distinctly less friendly when my answers proved unsatisfactory. No, I had no idea of the direction we had come in getting to Southampton. And no, I had no idea how many men were in Wild Jack’s band. More than twenty? More than fifty? A hundred? I shrugged helplessly.
The policeman doing the talking—like the one in the gatehouse, a bit flabby, I thought—advised me to be more cooperative.MoreLess
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