Part 10 (1/2)
Gypsies in this county have to be careful, or they lose their rights to come in here I think, ive one
We are done with this blamed county, anyhow”
”Well, you will have to settle up first,” declared Squire Redding
”Those spoons were valuable”
”I ain't got no spoons! I tell you I was at the ca”
”Very well, very well Can you furnish a thousand-dollar bond?”
”Thousand-dollar bond!” and the gypsy shi+fted uneasily ”I guess not, judge”
”Then here cos, take this ain and lock hiht Don't play off that way”
But Tony did notly as this one The two steel cells back of the fire house were often occupied by rough fisherot the law at the seaside place, and it was always Tos who put them in ”the pen”
”Come, Tony,” he said, with a flourish of his stick ”I never like to hit a gypsy; it's bad luck”
The prisoner looked up at big Tom Then he shuffled to his feet and shambled out of the room
As he passed down the stone steps he brushed past Cora Whether intentionally or otherwise, the ed to jump down at the side of the step Jack saw it and so did Ed, but big To
Cora only smiled Why should the man not be rude when her evidence had accused hi?
”I didn't tell you about the bottle,” she said to the boys as they walked along ”I found this bottle in the fields”
”Chlorofore, Cora”
”But could I prove that the man had it? Besides, it would be awful to have that reed Ed ”First thing we'd know, it would be in the New York papers 'Atte Girls!'
That would not be pleasant news for the folks up hoht,” said Jack ”But that bottle puts a different light on the case, and it seeht to suffer for it”
”And do you know that old gypsy woman, Liza,Tony? She ht all the gypsies had cleared out!” exclaiet a warrant for her----”
”She took the eleven o'clock train,” said Cora ”I saw her going to the station as I came up the street Oh, I wouldn't bother with the poor old woman This man is her brother, and naturally she wants to keep him out of trouble”
”At the expense of trouble for others” Jack was deter to make sure she and the whole tribe have left the county The lazy loafers!”