Mr.Dryfoos signed, and then he laid low." March saw Lindau listening with a mounting intensity, and heard him murmur in German, "Shameful! shameful!" Fulkerson went on: "Well, it wasn't long before they began to show their hand, but Mr.Dryfoos kept dark.

He agreed to everything; there never was such an obliging capitalist before; there wasn't a thing they asked of him that he didn't do, with the greatest of pleasure, and all went merry as a marriage-bell till one morning a whole gang of fresh men marched into the Dryfoos and Hendry Addition, under the escort of a dozen Pinkertons with repeating rifles at half-cock, and about fifty fellows found themselves out of a job.

You never saw such a mad set." "Pretty neat," said Kendricks, who looked at the affair purely from an aesthetic point of view.

"Such a coup as that would tell tremendously in a play." "That was vile treason," said Lindau in German to March.

"He's an infamous traitor! I cannot stay here.