"Take care how you insult me, boy!" said Rudolph, angrily.
"I have no wish to insult you. Now tell me why you have lured me here? I suppose you hired the boy."
"I did, and he did the work well," said the tramp, triumphantly.
"Well, now I am here, what do you want of me?"
"First, tell me how you happen to be in London? Did you know I was here?"
"I knew you crossed the Atlantic."
"How?"
"I saw you buy your ticket."
"What?" exclaimed the tramp, in surprise. "Did you reach New York so soon?"
"Yes. I lost my situation at the inn, for they did not believe my story about having been thrown down the well by a Quaker."