"But I gave that money to pa.

Pa won't ever give that money back, never! I don't know where on earth I'd ever get sixty dollars." As she spoke she heard someone on the walk, and then the heavy feet of the Colonel climbing the porch steps.

She heard him ask Susan if Miss Sally was inside, and heard the girl answer that she was, and she held Mrs.Smith's hand tighter.
"Come in," she called, to the knock on the door, and the Colonel stumped into the room.

He was hot and angry, so angry that he did not stop to offer his usual curt greetings.
"Look here," he said, by way of introduction, "you an' your fire-extinguishers has got me into a purty fix, Sally Briggs--a blame purty fix-an' I want to know do you intend to git me out or not?
I don't want no foolishness.

Skinner is after me an' I've got to pay him back them sixty dollars, or somebody'll go to jail for it.