"Never mind."
"Oh, I don't mind," said Abner. "You can say what you want to. This is a free country, only you can't do what you've a mind to."
Rudolph wished that he had a double stock of strength. It was very provoking to be laughed at and derided by Abner without being able to revenge himself. A pistol or a knife would make him even with the countryman, but Rudolph was too much of a coward to commit such serious crimes when there was so much danger of detection and punishment.
At last they entered Castleton.
The hay was to be delivered to a speculator, who collected large quantities of it, and forwarded over the railroad to a large city.
It had to be weighed, and Abner drove at once to the hay scales.
"Now," thought Rudolph, with exultation, "the boy must come down, and I shall get hold of him."
"I guess you'd better slide down," said Abner. "I can't sell you for hay, Tony."
There was a movement, and then the boy slid down, Abner catching him as he descended.
Rudolph's face changed ominously when he saw that it wasn't Tony who made his appearance.