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"Oh, I heerd Jim hed gone to Califor " "Pshaw!" said Miss Peekin, contemptuously; "that was days ago! I mean Brown the New York chap Millie Botayne's lover!" "Ye don't?" "But I do; an' what's more, he had to. Ther wuz men come after him in the nighttime, but he must hev heard 'em, fur they didn't find him in his room, an' this mornin' they found that his sailboat was gone, too.
"Gaining Millie Botayne's love," replied Jim. Brown looked at Millicent, and read the story from her face. He turned toward Jim a wondering look, and asked, slowly: "Then, why did you free me?" "Because she loved you," said Jim, and then he walked quietly away. "Why, Miss Peekin!"
Crankett, raising the lid of the churn to see if there were any signs of butter, "it's an everlastin' shame. Jim Hockson's a young feller in good standin' in the Church, an' Millie Botayne's an unbeliever they say her father's a reg'lar infidel." "Easy, ma, easy," gently remonstrated Ephr'm.
"Don't worry," whispered the colonel in Mr. Botayne's ear; "we'll clean out them two fellers, and let Tarpaulin loose again. Ev'ry feller come here for somethin' darn it!" with which sympathizing expression the colonel again retired. "I'll give you as much as the bank offers," said Mr. Botayne. "Very sorry, sir; but can't," replied the detective.
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