But first I want you to know, though you mayn't believe it, that every red cent you've given me to-night goes to HIM.

And don't you forget it." For all his vulgar frankness she knew he had lied to her many times before,--maliciously, wantonly, complacently, but never evasively; yet there was again that something in his manner which told her he was now telling the truth.
"Well," he began, settling himself back in his chair, "I told you I brought him to Heavy Tree Hill.

After I left you I wasn't going to trust him to no school; he knew enough for me; but when I left those parts where nobody knew you, and got a little nearer 'Frisco, where people might have known us both, I thought it better not to travel round with a kid o' that size as his FATHER.

So I got a young fellow here to pass him off as HIS little brother, and look after him and board him; and I paid him a big price for it, too, you bet! You wouldn't think it was a man who's now swelling around here, the top o' the pile, that ever took money from a brute like me, and for such schoolmaster work, too; but he did, and his name was Van Loo, a clerk of the Ditch Company." "Van Loo!" said the woman, with a movement of disgust; "THAT man!" "What's the matter with Van Loo ?" he said, with a coarse laugh, enjoying his wife's discomfiture.

"He speaks French and Spanish, and you oughter hear the kid roll off the lingo he's got from him.