Those scalawags wouldn't try it again so soon after last night.

I'm not bothering about that; not at all.

That needn't worry anybody." "But this morning----" "Pshaw! He's likely home and dry by this time--all foolishness; don't be an old woman." The two men reentered the room and found Helen clinging to Minnie's hand on the sofa.

She looked up at them quickly.
"Do you think--do you--what do you--" Her voice shook so that she could not go on.
The judge pinched her cheek and patted it.

"I think he's home and dry, but I think he got wet first; that's what I think.