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An' the carriers be tappin' the stuff an' drinkin' what's left, an' neither to hold nor to bind but threat'nin' to cut the inside of en out an' he's here, if you plaze, to know if so be you could lend a few pounds to satisfy 'em. I told en 'Show him in, commanded Mrs Tresize, with a creditable hold on her voice; for, to tell the truth, she was half hysterical.
An instant since he had been a stoop-shouldered, short-sighted, insignificant person, more gentle mannered than a child, but in a flash he became a palpitating fury: an evil atom surcharged with such terrific venom that his antagonist drew back involuntarily. "Don't you make no threat'nin' moves in my direction, or you'll go East in an ice-bath!"
The young man faced him. "Colonel Ward, there's a law against trespass, a law against conspiracy, a law against riots and destruction of property, and a law against abduction. I promise you here and now that you'll learn something about those laws later." "Still threat'nin' me right on my own land, are yeh, hey?" "I am not threatening.
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