Or I'll shoot you like a dog, without objection.

Now, then—go, sir, or I'll fire!

Put your hands up!—higher! higher!

Wait here, Jenny: I'll just sever this connection.

[He backs J. B. out of the room at the muzzle of the pistol; Jenny listens for a while, and then sinks on a chair and cries.]

Jenny.

Just a horrid, dirty tramp!

What an awful, awful scamp!

Oh, what shall I say to Mama? Dearie, dear!

If I'd only minded her