"You have cheated me! And so has Eliphaz Green—I always knew he was tricky! You have both defrauded me!"
"I did not mean to," said Leibel mildly.
"You did mean to. You had no business to take the matter out of my hands. What right had you to propose to Rose Green?"
"I did not," cried Leibel excitedly.
"Then you asked her father!"
"No; I have not asked her father yet."
"Then how do you know she will have you?"
"I—I know," stammered Leibel, feeling himself somehow a liar as well as a thief. His brain was in a whirl; he could not remember how the thing had come about. Certainly he had not proposed; nor could he say that she had.
"You know she will have you," repeated Sugarman, reflectively. "And does she know?"
"Yes. In fact," he blurted out, "we arranged it together."