I vowed if that agent ever came back, I'd shoot his abominable pills into him, and I've kept the gun loaded for the purpose.

Was this a pill man?
I scarcely think he was a fertilizer, because it is rather late in the season for those bandits." "He is a man," said Lawrence, coming up the steps, "who belongs to a class much worse than those you have mentioned.

He is what is called a blackmailer." "Is that so ?" cried the old lady, her eyes flashing as she brought the butt of the gun heavily upon the porch floor.

"I'm very glad I did not know it; very glad, indeed; for I might have been tempted to give him what belonged to another, without waiting for him to disobey my order to go.

I am very much troubled, sir, that this annoyance should have happened to you in my house.