"I am willing; but the girl herself objects."
"She does?"
"Yes."
"You have spoken to her?"
"Yes; I told her a rich gentleman in New York, wished to adopt her, a man who would bring her up as his own child; but she answered that she did not wish to go to New York; did not desire to be adopted, and would not leave me."
"She must be compelled to go with me!"
"I wouldn't like to do that."
"Listen, Tom, let me have the girl, and I will pay, you two thousand dollars down in gold!"
"But she will not go with you."
"We can manage that."