what- '' he stopped , and pressed his lips shut against betraying himself into an undignified yammer : having been under the impression , until the present moment , that gong su had been his cook , he could only regard with outrage both the shockingly brazen mode and the act itself , the self-acknowledgment of a- `` he is not a spy , '' hammond hissed at him urgently , having dragged laurence nearly bodily to the far corner of the tent , `` not a spy , at all , captain ; you must not consider him so .