He boasted of it the next time he got drunk." "I know--I know." The Squire had paid Robert's loss, and aware of his own folly was of no mind to confess to any one.

"I have no wish or will to help him.

I mean now to drop him altogether, and I must tell him so.

But what a pity it is! He is intelligent, and was a good carpenter until he began to drink.

I must talk to him." "You will only make him more revengeful.