I don't know whether I can GET sixty dollars out of pa." She was so helpless that Mrs.Smith's blood boiled at the rude brutality of the Colonel, and she stepped forward and faced him.
"What is all this about ?" she asked.

"What is the matter with those fire-extinguishers?
Why do you come bothering Miss Sally this way?
Why don't you settle it with Mr.Skinner yourself ?" "The matter is, them ain't fire-extinguishers at all," said the Colonel rudely, "an' wasn't, an' never was.

Them things is lung-testers, an' Sally was cheatin' Skinner when she sold 'em to him.

An' the reason I'm botherin' her is that she got the money fer 'em, an' she's got to find it somehow an' pay it back.

An' as for me settlin' with Skinner, I ain't got nothin' to do with it.