"Silly trick," said the Englishman, grimly.
"Why, the dahkeys got they fifteen hund'ed!"
"Don't they claim twenty-two fifty?"
"Well, they jess betteh not!"
"Rascally trick!"
"Sir," said John, "Mr. Ravenel is my personal friend. If you make another such comment on his actions I shall treat it as if made on mine."
"Come, Come!" exclaimed Gamble, commandingly; "we can't have——"
"You'll have whatever I give, sir!"
Three or four men half rose, smiling excitedly, but sank down again.
"You think, sir," insisted John, to the Englishman's calmly averted face, "that being in a free country—" he dashed off Shotwell's remonstrant hand.