"Only about Speckbacher—"
"What of me?" hastily said Speckbacher, overhearing him.
"Only who you were. I said you took wood to the salt-works."
"Humph! Was that all?"
"He asked me about Franz."
"What did you tell him?" said Franz.
"Oh, nothing—I only said you sold horses; and sometimes brandy."
"You might have let that alone, youngster," muttered Franz, looking a little annoyed; while the others laughed.
"What said you of me, my little man?" inquired Father Joachim, without pausing from his writing.