told him we would sit here all night that s right we agreed and he as good as kicked me out of his house sir said jim what we were overwhelmed at this breach of decorum and jim had to of course he did not lay his hand on me but he rang the bell and told that black butler of his to show me the door this did look like it and jim who was rather declared that for a little he would call him oat himself jim whom did he say he would send for v we asked i did not catch the name exactly but it sounded like it could not have been him though he s the are you sure it was there s only one in the county and that s the jim s memory was refreshed by our repetition of the name and he was positive it was here was a shell the whole plot burst on us he was going to send for the and have us arrested and then get the credit of being the only one out it was why in the mischief did you tell him where we were we asked which made jim rather sulky and he said truly that we had just praised him for doing that very thing and said something further about our being a couple of fools as he was necessary to us and had done the best he could we had to him which was not hard to do still there was the question of arrest to be considered to be the first arrested in a was a crying disgrace it was decided to send out to he had not been gone long when he came rushing back and began to the door faster than ever he had run upon the himself coming out of old s yard and the had attempted to arrest him but i knocked him down said he triumphantly this was a new the was already the friend and creature of old who was the s attorney and now to have knocked him down would make him all the more bitter against us jim changed the current of our thoughts suddenly by saying suppose old should choose shot guns and he s one of the best shots with a shot gun in the world one armed or no one armed i had not thought of this and i was conscious of a sudden and catching of my breath which left a little taste in my mouth then i thought of my girl again i asked jim how the colonel lost his arm he said in the war and i don t know why but i was conscious again of that same sinking sensation and taste however we did not have much time to consider for just then we heard the of approaching footsteps through the frozen snow and the next moment there came a thundering knock at the door and the was demanding i was sensible of something not unlike a feeling of relief at which i was rather ashamed but seemed to be in a frenzy of excitement he sprang up and seized a heavy desk the and his for there were several in the party as we could tell from their voices finding the door locked dashed against it and it and cracked and seemed about to give way when got his desk against it and flung himself on top of it get out of the window he whispered hurry go to s i ll hold it i ll keep the out i of course had to appear to hb trying to get away so i began to at the window and would have found a reasonable excuse in its tight if jim had not solved the difficulty by kicking the window out and all there was nothing for me to do then but to climb out but how cold it was i thought the wind would split me i was about to climb back when jim pushed me out they were the most eager seconds i ever saw i told them i could not go out in that wind without a hat and overcoat they flung me a hat and asked where my overcoat was i was looking around with one eye for the coat and the other on the door hoping it might give way which it threatened to do every minute when it did give way with a and the came in head foremost through the split flung himself on him like a tiger shouting to me to run � he d hold him � and jim gave me a so there was nothing else to do and i got out it was as cold as christmas and as i ran across the lots to rice s stable i thought the wind would cut me in two jim followed and we climbed up into the in the hay at first i was sensible of relief at getting out of that biting wind but after a little i began to again i asked jim if he thought he could get any he said not and began to preach on in general and especially on the necessity of in a i said jim you talk as if you were drunk now he was so much offended at this that i i rowed down into the hay but to no purpose jim was better off than i for he had an overcoat the idea that would keep me from seemed to take possession of me and i began to think about it all the time presently i actually began to smell it this scared me for i thought i must be to death my feet were already jim who had at first been very had become less and less so and now only answered from his hole in the hay in or not at all how long we 