CHAPTER XXX. COMPARING NOTES.
It must be confessed that for the moment Nelson was completely nonplused. He wished to get into the cottage, and at once, but the woman looked as if she meant what she said, and he had no desire to have his skull cracked open by the rolling-pin.
"See here, madam; you are making a great mistake," he said as calmly as he could.
"Eh?" And Sarah Higgins put her hand up to her ear.
"I say you are making a great mistake," bawled Nelson. "That lady is not crazy."
"I say she is."
"Who told you she was crazy—Mr. Bulson?"
At this the woman looked astonished.
"Do you know that gentleman?"
"I know that man, yes. He is no gentleman. He robbed that lady of her property."