"I'd like to know what right you have to treat me in this shameful manner," demanded Jack, indignantly.
"Never moind," returned the Irishman; "it will teach ye a lesson not to tell lying stories about me."
"I haven't said anything but what I believe to be true," replied Jack, pointedly.
"Sure, now, is that raly so? Well, ye can suffer for thinking wrong," continued Mosey. "Oi niver----"
"Oh, stop your everlasting jaw!" broke in Corrigan, who was more practical in his way than his brother-in-law. "Never mind what you've done, and what you haven't done. The question is, what are we to do with the boy, now he's here?"
The Irishman scratched his head.
"It won't do to let him go," he said.
"Suppose we search his pockets," suggested Corrigan.
Jack uttered an exclamation.
"What do you mean?" he demanded; "you wouldn't dare?"