"Who asked you to tag around after me?
Get out!" Whereupon he bundled Bland out without ceremony or gentleness, and the three scribes with him; slammed the door shut and turned the key which the clerk had left in the lock.
"Now," he stated truculently, "I want that marriage license and I want it quick!" The sheriff was humped over the telephone waiting for his connection.
He cocked an eye toward Johnny, looked at his colleague, and jerked his head sidewise.

The man immediately stepped up alongside the irate one and tapped him on the arm.
"No rough stuff, see.

We can arrest--" "Don't you _dare_ arrest Johnny!" Mary Y cried indignantly.

"What has he done, for gracious sake?
Is it a crime for people to get married?
Johnny and I have been engaged for a long, long while.

A month, at least!--and dad knows it, and has thought it was perfectly all right.
I told him just this afternoon that I intended to marry Johnny.