Jimmy leaned forward with a distorted, insane face.
"That time you sint me to Mary for you, I lied to her, and married her meself.

NOW, will you fight like a man ?" Dannie made a spring, and Jimmy crumpled up in his grasp.
"Noo, I will choke the miserable tongue out of your heid, and twist the heid off your body, and tear the body to mince-meat," raved Dannie, and he promptly began the job.
With one awful effort Jimmy tore the gripping hands from his throat a little.

"Lie!" he gasped.

"It's all a lie!" "It's the truth! Before God it's the truth!" Mary Malone tried to scream behind them.

"It's the truth! It's the truth!" And her ears told her that she was making no sound as with dry lips she mouthed it over and over.