“By gum!” It was all Daniel Hawkins could say. It took away his breath to hear a boy talk like that to the principal man in Hopsville.
“You young rascal!” began Nathan Dobb, growing red in the face.
“Hold on there!” put in Barton Reeve.
“Who are you?”
“You know well enough. I am here to help Leo obtain his rights.”
“What rights?”
“To all the money you are trying to rob him of.”
“Me?”
“Exactly.”
“I haven’t a cent belonging to him.”