So I just gave 'im something to get excited about.

It was n't a minute after I 'd thrown a rock and my 'at in there and let out a yell that he came thumping in, looking around.

I was 'iding back of the timbers there.

Out 'e went, muttering to 'imself, and I--well, I went to Center City and read the papers." They chuckled together then; it was something to know that they had not only forced Squint Rodaine to show his enmity openly, but it was something more to make him the instrument of helping them with their work.

The pumps were going steadily now, and a dirty stream of water was flowing down the ditch that had been made at one side of the small tram track.