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Mulroony; and it is a sad thing to be unprotected, ma'am; it's a pity, too, to see sich a woman as you are without somebody to take care of her, and especially one that id undherstand swindlin'. But what happened next, ma'am?"
"'Away, my boys, to horse away, The Chase admits of no delay " "Tom Burton!" re-echoed the father with a groan; "an so you're in Tom Burton's hands! A swindlin', horse-dalin' scoundrel that would chate St. Pether. Hycy, my man, if you go to look for wool to Tom you'll come home shorn."
But as for that lily-livered sneak that poor lyin', swindlin', cringin' cur of a Clavering who stands in my shoes stands in my shoes, hang him! I'll make him pull my boots off and clean 'em, I will. Ha, ha!" Here he burst out into a wild laugh, at which Strong got up and put away the brandy-bottle. The other still laughed good-humoredly.
Football? Why, now I do remember. You had a football team there and and wa'n't there somethin' queer, some sort of a a robbery, or stealin', or swindlin' connected with it? Seems's if I'd heard somethin' like that." Mr. Wingate looked his friend over, winked, and asked a question. "Sol," he said, "you ain't forgot how to keep a secret?" The depot master smiled. "I guess not," he said.
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