'Well now, Bill, this business must be stopped by fair means as foul.'
'That boat shan't never be built.'
'Whist, Bill, whist, don't be too fast; time enough yet.'
'What will you do, then?'
'What will I do—jist take the law on Oakum. Don't you see if I tie his hands the boat can't be built; and the old one they've got now, will only sink 'em to the bottom of the bay, if they try to take a load in her. I can make out a bill, I guess, that will keep him tight for three months at any rate.'
'That's a good idee.'
'Well, what I want of you is, to go some time to-morrow or next day, and jist ask Dick Tucker to come and see me, and may be I'll give him a job. You ain't afraid of Dick, now, are you?'
'No, I don't care nothin' for him; I should like just once to turn the key upon him, and see how he'd like it.'
'He'd rather turn it upon you and me, Bill; but you jist go there and tell him what I say. But keep mum, Bill.'
'No fear o' me.'