I want to leave, and at once." "Mr.Crabtree, you listen to me," said Dick, stepping closer to the crack in the door.

"We are not afraid of you, and we want you and Tad Sobber to know it.

Were it not for the unpleasant publicity for Mrs.
Stanhope and her daughter, we'd have you in the lock-up inside of twenty-four hours.

We understand that you and Sobber have been threatening the Stanhopes and the Lanings again, and also threatening us.

Now these threats have got to stop, and you have got to behave yourself.