yourself or in similar words to some that was set to music sometime back i wish you to see it with your eyes and i will pledge with mine turning his back and turning a key mr produced the document holding on by bis usual corner mr holding on by the opposite corner sat down on the seat so lately by mr and looked it over all right sir he slowly and unwillingly admitted in his reluctance to loose hold all right and watched his partner as he turned his back again and turned his key again there s nothing new i suppose said his low chair behind the counter yes there is sir replied there was something new this that old and � mr inquired with a glance toward the s yard or two of smile be i cried yielding to his honest indignation dusty that old and sir turns into the yard this morning to with our property a tool of his own a young man by the name of when i say to him what do you want here young man this is a private yard he out a paper from s other the one i was passed over for this is to to overlook the and to watch the work that s pretty strong i think mr remember he doesn t know yet of our claim on the property suggested then he must have a hint of it said and a strong one that ll his terrors a bit give him an inch and he ll take an ell let him alone this time and what u he do with our property next i tell you what mr it comes to this i must be friend with or i shall fly into several pieces i can t contain myself when i look at liim every time i see him putting his hand in his pocket i see him putting it into my pocket every time i hear him his money i hear him taking liberties with my money flesh and blood can t bear it no said mr greatly exasperated and go further a wooden leg can t bear it but mr urged it was your own idea that he should not be exploded upon till the were away but it was likewise my idea mr retorted that if he came and about the property he should be threatened given to understand that he has no right to it and be made our slave wasn t that my idea mr it certainly was mr it certainly was as you say partner assented put into a better humor by the ready admission very well i consider his planting one of his tools in the yard an act of and and his nose shall be put to the for it it was not your fault mr i must admit said that he got off with the dutch bottle that night as you handsomely say again partner no it was not my fault i d have had that bottle out of him was it to be borne that he should come like a thief in the dark digging among stuff that was far more ours than his seeing that we could deprive him of every grain of it if he didn t buy us at our own figure and carrying off treasure from its no it was not to mutual be borne and for that too his nose shall be pat to the how do you propose to do it mr to put his nose to the i propose returned that man to insult him openly and if looking into this eye of mine he dares to offer a word in answer to retort upon him before he can take his breath add another word to that you dusty old dog and your e a beggar suppose he says nothing mr then replied we shall have come to an understanding with very little trouble and i ll break him and drive him mr i ll put him in harness and ril bear him up tight and i ll break him and drive him the harder the old dust is driven sir the higher he ll pay and i mean to be paid high mr i promise you you speak quite mr sir is it for him that i have declined and failed night after night is it for his pleasure that i ve waited at home of an evening like a set of to be set up and knocked over set up and knocked over by whatever balls � or books � he chose to bring against me why i m a hundred times the man he is sir five hundred times perhaps it was with the malicious intent of urging him on to his worst that mr looked as if he doubted that what was it outside the house at present to its disgrace by that of fortune and worm of the hour said falling back upon his strongest terms of and the counter that i mutual five hundred times the man be ever was sat in all waiting for an errand or a customer was it outside that very house as i set eyes upon him rolling in the lap of luxury when i was a selling half there for a living and am i to in the dust for him to walk over no there was a grin upon the ghastly countenance of the french gentleman under the influence of the fire light as if he were how many thousand and array themselves against the fortunate on premises exactly answering to those of mr one might have fancied that the big headed babies were over with their attempts to reckon up the children of men who their into their by the same process the yard or two of smile on the part of the might have been invested with the meaning all about this was quite 