"See here, Baker--which isn't your name--but it will do--" said the colonel at once, "things have turned your way. Your friend here, young Stirling, has got the whip-hand--I am cornered, and admit it. I want to make a proposition to you, Stirling needn't hear it. When you have decided, we will call him into the room again and he will see that you get your rights. Is that satisfactory?"