Finally Dryden was sent up for robbing a store, and Joe nearly went with him.

They let him off, I believe, because it was proved pretty well that he was only Dryden's tool, and didn't have nerve enough to do any real harm by himself.

He drifted around for several months, living like a stray cur, until Nick took him in tow.

Nick treats him shamefully, abuses him like a beast, and works him like a slave.

The poor devil stays on with him because he doesn't know what else to do, I suppose." "Is he always like we saw him to-day ?" asked Patches, who seemed strangely interested in this bit of human drift.