"Is it all over?" Dan cried, seizing the attorney by the arm in order to hold his attention, and before the gentleman could speak, Sam Barney cried vindictively:
"You can bet it ain't all over! I've been buncoed by a lot of cheap firemen, an' don't count on holdin' my tongue. You'll see Jip Collins in jail again before he's a day older."
"Yes, it is all over," the attorney said in reply to Dan's question. "So long as Jip behaves himself, nothing more will be done; but if he should go wrong, sentence for this crime will be pronounced, and most likely he will be given the extreme penalty."
"Can Sam Barney have him arrested?" Dan asked.
"No one can trouble him on this charge while he lives an honest life."
"Then I'll see that that duffer holds his tongue!" and Bill started toward the would-be detective in a threatening manner; but the latter was not minded to take any chances of an encounter.
He turned and fled instantly Bill made the advance, and did not halt until he was half a block or more away, when he shouted:
"Wait an' see what I'll do to all you chumps who think you're so awful smart!"
"I'll give you a chance of seein' what I'll do, an' without much waitin', if you make any more cheap talk!"
With this threat Bill turned his back on the disappointed Sam, and Seth begged of him to remain quiet.