"Yes."
"Then she didn't want to go into the arrangement."
"You bet she didn't."
"It was a hold-up, then?"
"Yes."
"But how could you hold her after she married Fargus?"
Bofinger, in his misery, related without a gleam of pride what had once seemed to him a master stroke.
"I made her sign a common-law marriage with me, had it witnessed, and told her if she squealed I'd produce it and claim her."
"Alonzo," Groll said with a nod of approval, "you've had hard luck."
"Luck! I've been up against a fiend; that's what!"