“But you will oblige me?”
“Some other way, sir, if you please.”
“Besides, I will give you a guinea.”
“Oh! that alters the case, sir. But only for half an hour.”
“Only for half an hour.”
Evans was triced up and pinned to the wall; the chaplain took out a guinea and placed it in his sight, and walked out.
In about ten minutes he returned, and there was Evans, his face drawn down by pain.
“Well, how do you like it?”
“Oh! pretty well, sir; it isn't worth making an outcry about.”
“Only a little oncomfortable.”