"Mr. Wright won't allow such a thing."
"The letter he wrote seems to have made the cashier's neck stiffer than it was yesterday, an' I don't reckon it would do much good to depend on any officer of the company."
"I'll give that feller a piece of my mind," Bill cried angrily, and Joe replied:
"Don't do it yet a while. He told Donovan this noon that you'd gone with Fred to put the cash in a safe place, so it may be that the constable would like to see you by this time."
"Why, where does he think it was?"
"Buried on the mountain somewhere, an' if he sends men out to see if any diggin' has been done lately, the vein will surely be found."
"I'll go back any way!" Bill cried after a short pause. "Such as him shan't call me a thief."
"Now, look here, matey, what will be the good of gettin' yourself in jail? I've told Fred's mother jest how the matter stands, an' she believes as I do, that it'll be better to hang off a while in the hope something will turn up."
"An' have the constables chasin' us all over the country."
"It ain't certain they'll do that."