Chapter Twenty-seven
"Righteousness shall go before him and shall set us in the way of his steps."
THE Bishop was not in the habit of carrying much money with him, and the man with the stake who was searching him uttered an oath at the small amount of change he found. As he uttered it, the man with the pistol savagely said, "Jerk out his watch! We might as well get all we can out of the job!"
The man with the stake was on the point of laying hold of the chain where there was a sound of footsteps coming towards him.
"Get behind the fence! We haven't half searched him yet! Mind you keep shut now, if you don't want—"
The man with the pistol made a significant gesture with it and, with his companion, pulled and pushed the Bishop down the alley and through a ragged, broken opening in the fence. The three stood still there in the shadow until the footsteps passed.
"Now, then, have you got the watch?" asked the man with the pistol.
"No, the chain is caught somewhere!" and the other man swore again.
"Break it then!"