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`` The difficulty is not yet explained , '' said Gilbert , `` and perhaps you 'll _ now _ not deny my right to know something more of your first acquaintance with Sandy Flash ? '' `` Have it then ! '' Barton exclaimed , desperately -- `` and much good may it do you ! I thought his name was Fortune , as much as you did , till nine o'clock that night , when he put a pistol to my breast in the woods ! If you think I 'm colloguing with him , why did he rob me under threat of murder , -- money , watch , and everything ? '' `` Ah-ha ! '' said Miss Lavender , `` and so that 's the way your watch has been gittin ' mended all this while ?