"He told me he was ill, and asked for a glass of brandy.

He looked as if he were in great pain, and I gave him the brandy at once and asked him to step inside the bar.

But he wouldn't do that,--he just stood talking with the gentlemen about motoring, and then something was said about a child being knocked over by the motor,--and all of a sudden----" Here her voice broke, and she sank on a seat half swooning, while Elizabeth, her eldest girl, finished the story in low, trembling tones.
Tom o' the Gleam meanwhile stood rigidly upright and silent.

To him the chief officer of the law finally turned.
"Will you come with us quietly ?" he asked, "or do you mean to give us trouble ?" Tom lifted his dark eyes.
"I shall give no man any more trouble," he answered.

"I shall go nowhere save where I am taken.