“Then let me have another chance. Just one more!”
“Not unless you tell the truth about that black dress of mine.”
“I never took it!” Jack said desperately. “Believe me, I never did!”
“But you know how it came to be in the hollow log?”
“Not for sure,” Jack hedged.
“You could make a pretty shrewd guess.”
“Maybe.”
“Then suppose you come clean and tell the Cubs everything you know.”
“Help ’em after they turned me in?”
“Did they really do you such a bad turn seeing to it that you were sent out here to my place?”