"You refused to be bail for me, and that's enough for one day," answered Mrs. Taylor.
"I ain't a goin' to resk my property for a woman that keeps money hid away from me, and won't tell no thin' about this business."
"Your property would have been all taken away from you long ago if I hadn't paid the interest, and paid the mortgage, too."
"But where did you get the money to pay the mortgage with?"
"That will all be explained in due time."
Ezekiel went over the same ground again and again. He was angry, and finally left the house. He felt that he was an abused man, because he was ignored. He objected to giving bail for his wife simply to increase his own importance, and a little importunity would have won his consent. He was vexed because he had not even been asked a second time to yield the point.
"Now, mother, we are alone," said Bobtail. "Can't you tell me where you got that bill?"
"I can't tell anybody, Robert," replied his mother. "I am sure that all will be explained in time."
"The case looks bad against me, mother."
"I know it does;" and the tears began to flow from her eyes again.