“There’s no use losing your neck if you work the business right,” said Meg.
“She feels mighty fine since Zu is out of the way,” said Crisp, “and she don’t care whether she died in the asylum or not, so she’s gone. It’s a devilish good piece o’ luck, anyway.”
“Yes, we’ll never be troubled with her any more, and that’s mighty lucky.”
“It seems kinder queer, though, that a couple of little threshings like that should make her crazy,” said Crisp.
“Well, she never had any too good sense anyhow, but it’s a lucky thing for all hands that she’s dead. I wonder how it was that she dared go out in such a thunderstorm, when it was so awful dark, but you know if she turned crazy first, then it wasn’t any wonder, but there’s no tellin’ jest when she did get crazy. At any rate she’s dead and I’m glad of it.”
“And now the next thing is to bring that other jade to time, but, where to find her now is the question. She told me she was going away with that Brunswick, but 222 she didn’t tell me when she was going, she said she would let me know, but she’s a liar, a liar, but we’ve got to hunt her up, and make her hand over a good bunch o’ money.”
“Never mind, she don’t make nothin’ hangin’ off this way,” said Meg, lighting her pipe.
She took from her pocket a small amount of change, and, giving it to Crisp, told him to go out and buy some bread and cheese for their supper.
When Scott Wilmer went to his room, he closed the door and turned the key in the lock that no one might enter. Seating himself he took from his pocket several letters.
“Let me see,” he said; “it strikes me as being very peculiar, but I more than half believe I am right. I know very well that I have seen her before, and I do not believe that she comes here for nothing, but what can it be? Perhaps a sharp watch will give the desired information. Yes, this letter and the facts that have come before me arouse my suspicion. I’ll give her a good price if she will tell my fortune again. Her very actions, when I went in the room, were singular, and the more I think of it, the more I think I am right. At all events I will study up the matter and see what I can make of it. It is quite likely that she is here for no good at least.”