But did she tell you who it vas ?" "No, I asked her; but she wouldn't tell." "I dare say not, the leetle baggage! Perhaps she did not vish to frighten you avay." "Frighten!" McMurdo was on fire in a moment.
"Ah, yes, my friend! You need not be ashamed to be frightened of him.

It is Teddy Baldwin." "And who the devil is he ?" "He is a boss of Scowrers." "Scowrers! I've heard of them before.

It's Scowrers here and Scowrers there, and always in a whisper! What are you all afraid of?
Who are the Scowrers ?" The boarding-house keeper instinctively sank his voice, as everyone did who talked about that terrible society.

"The Scowrers," said he, "are the Eminent Order of Freemen!" The young man stared.

"Why, I am a member of that order myself." "You! I vould never have had you in my house if I had known it--not if you vere to pay me a hundred dollar a veek." "What's wrong with the order?
It's for charity and good fellowship.