“Can’t you drop that case?”
“No,” said Mr. Gibson, “it is in the hands of the authorities.”
Mrs. Hurtt said:
“Then move out of the neighborhood, and I will pay you back what rent you have paid, and will make you a handsome present, if you will leave the city.”
“No,” said Mr. Gibson, “I would not leave the city for ten thousand dollars.”
He then whispered to his mother:
“You keep her here till I go out and get an officer to arrest her.”
He then went out; and finding an officer on the corner, told him the facts, but the officer said he could do nothing in the matter.
Mr. Gibson then started up to the Mayor’s Office, but he met the Mayor in Fifth Street above Walnut, to whom he stated the facts. The Mayor walked along to the Office with him, and there told Lieutenant Thomas to have a warrant issued for the arrest of the sister, who had thus endeavored to get Mr. Gibson out of the way. Mr. Gibson having made the charge under oath, the warrant issued.
When he returned, Mrs. Hurtt had left his house and gone into her brother’s house. He stood on the pavement awhile to see if she would come out. She did not do so, and then he went to the door and asked where that lady was who had been in his house that morning about that business.