“I guess what I know would do someone good and would bring someone harm.”
“Tell me, Pat, how did you hear these things?”
“I have not got these ears on the sides of my head just for looks. They was put there to hear with, and I am going to hear when there are annything to be heard.”
“When did you hear all this, Pat?”
“I am after hearing it some time ago.”
“Pat, I thought I could trust you to tell me everything that went wrong inside of these prison walls.”
“Faith, and you can, and I would of told you if it was wrong, your honor, but I thought it was all right if he is guilty of staling all the money, he ought to be punished, and I did not think it necessary to tell you. I expected to find out what he did with the money. Mebbe the poor fellow could get it back.”
“You have a secret, Pat, and you must tell me all about it.”
“Well, I have got to tell it some time, and if I tell it now, I will have to tell it over again, so what is the use of telling it twice?”
“I believe it is something I should know now, and perhaps I do know, but not exactly what you do.”