“I dunno. They told us we hadn't better watch 'em, and so I thought maybe I wouldn't.”
“Was that the last you saw of them?”
“Well—not quite.”
“Not quite! What else?”
“Before they'd gone very far, the boss came back.”
“Oh, he did?”
“And he told Pa he guessed Joe was a little excited, and they hadn't meant to be hard on him. And so he gave Pa a little money for his trouble.”
“I thought you said your father wasn't mixed up with them.”
“He ain't. Not a bit.”
“But you say he took their money?”