Part 78 (1/2)
”More have you I arn't a fool I see you trying to break open the winders with that thing”
”It's a lie; you didn't”
”Oh yes, I did I know; I can see in the dark What are you after?”
Saly now to strike the fellon
He dis how useless it would be to make him an enemy, and the other course now offered itself to him
”You don't want to knohat I'h
”It's only for a bit of fun”
”Not it People don't break in at s for fun You give o and tell”
Sam's heart leaped with satisfaction at this Money, then, would buy the young scoundrel off, and he hastily took out a coin, and held it out so as to silence his ene to be done now but get back to toith his ht the coin was snatched and pocketed, but he did not feel so well satisfied the next moment
”That's on'y a shi+llin' Give's another”
A second was held out and taken
”Noants another,” said Pete, and upon this being given, he demanded a fourth, and then a fifth
Pete was satisfied now, and he said with a low chuckle--
”If any o' these is bad 'uns, I shall go and tell”
”But they're not, they're all good,” whispered Saoin' to stop and see what you do But you can't get in like that The winders has all got noo fasteners I could get in if I liked”
”How?” said Saoin' to tell you for this,” said Pete ”You give et in I see you come in the wood and s et?”
Sahts, andto do Then all at once Pete broke out with--
”You ain't half a chap I could soon get in there if I wanted”
”Could you? How?”
”I've been in the mill lots o' times,” said Pete evasively, ”'fore they took the stones out, and since old dicky Brandon pulled the sails off”
”Tell lance round; for, reat lad before hian to feel desperate, and as if he one so far He was convinced in his own mind that the ht would be in his uncle's study, and to him the first floor of the old mill was that study Tom had told him as much, and that the old walnut-wood bureau was the depository where their uncle kept his papers
”People in the country are such idiots,” he said to hirooms or iron safes He has locked the papers up there as sure as a gun”