"'She's on my hands an' she's goin' to stay there,' says the young man. 'I'm in love with Lizzie myself. I've always been in love with Lizzie.'
"'Your confession is ill-timed,' says Lizzie, as she pulled away an' tried to smooth her hair. She began to cry again, an' added, between sobs: 'My heart is about broken, and I must go home and get help for my poor father.'
"'I'll attend to that,' says Dan; 'but I warn you that I'm goin' to offer a Pettigrew for a Henshaw even. If I had a million dollars I'd give it all to boot.'
"Sam turned toward me, his face red as a beet.
"'The money!' he shouted. 'Get it, quick!'
"'Here it is!' I said, as I put the roll o' bills in his hand.
"'Did you take it off him?'
"'I took it off him.'
"'Poor Aleck!' he says, mournfully, as he counted the money. 'It's kind o' hard on him.'
"Soon we halted a passin' automobile an' got Sam up the bank an' over the wall. It was like movin' a piano with somebody playin' on it, but we managed to seat him on the front floor o' the car, which took us all home.