"Who?"
"Jip Collins, of course."
"How'd you get in?"
"I was hangin' 'round there lookin' for a chance when your 'Lish Davis come along with a lawyer, an' I asked 'em to let me go in with them."
"Mr. Davis took a lawyer there?" Seth repeated in astonishment.
"That's what he did, an' I tell you, Seth, that fireman is a jim dandy, an' no mistake!"
"Don't you s'pose I know that after all this time?"
"Yes; but yet you didn't think he'd do so much, eh?"
"He's mighty good to everybody. How was Jip lookin'?"
"Terrible down. You'd think he was expectin' to be hanged by the way he takes on. I felt awful sorry for him, even if he did burn us out."