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The men he had with him that filled a goodly part of the square were far more numerous than those that had been thus hastily rallied against him, and he chuckled at his luck. But when he saw Dante where he stood he reviled him, calling him the thief that would steal a man's wife from his side, and summoning him to yield himself a prisoner instantly.
"I shall offer a substantial reward," said Captain Putnam, and one afternoon a notice was posted in the school proper and in the gymnasium, offering one hundred dollars for information leading to the capture of the thief. "Say, I shouldn't mind earning that reward!" murmured Dale. "A fellow could have no end of a good time on a hundred dollars!" murmured Stuffer.
Who better qualified than they to call to an account 'the thief, the 'cut-purse of the empire and the rule, who 'found the precious diadem on a shelf, and stole and put it in his pocket'? Shall the blessed 'Son of England' prove a thief, and take purses? A question to be asked. 'The poor abuses of the time want countenance. Lear.
"Man, think shame to pester the man so; men do not lie on their deathbed"; and as Gilderman did not move he swung him aside by the collar as though he had been a child. Gilderman uttered a furious exclamation. "Absurd preposterous professor, surely you are not mad enough to believe the story this would-be thief has told?" "Story?" queried the professor, "what story has he told?
Whether this was sincere horror, or the game played by the thief who shouts, "stop thief!" at all events, it did not prevent the archdeacon from being considered by the learned heads of the chapter, as a soul who had ventured into the vestibule of hell, who was lost in the caves of the cabal, groping amid the shadows of the occult sciences.
The Cogia, who was not yet sleep, rising in haste, seized the thief by the collar and cried out, 'O wife, be quick and light a candle, for I have caught a thief! hereupon the thief exclaimed humorously, 'O Cogia Efendi, don't be in a hurry; the virtue in that prayer being in me was rather too much for me, and so I tumbled down here.
Around him, shown up by the moon, were sword belts, brass buttons, sword hilts, and other objects that the infamous old fellow had torn from the poor dead. "You are not wounded. You are a thief and a violator of tombs! I shall call out and you will be killed. Do you hear that, you miserable wretch?" I exclaimed, and I went so near to him that I could feel his breath sully mine.
Running my horse close up by the side of the thief who stole my saddle, I placed the muzzle of my forty-five close against his side and right there I took charge of Mr. Buffalo and my outfit.
I was so utterly taken aback by all this, that I could scarcely believe I was not dreaming. "I really didn't call you a thief," I said. "You mean to say you won't fight?" cried my adversary, sparring up at me. "Hold hard!" cried Daly, before I could answer. "Of course he's going to fight; but give him time to peel, man. Look alive, Batchelor, off with your coat."
Johnnie Barclay the book that contained the evidence against Bob Hendricks did not go out of this court-house by the front door, as you well know, but through that hole stolen at night when I was out; and the man who stole it was the horse thief that used to run the cave your esteemed friend, Lige Bemis."
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