40/42 That's what I have found out, gipsy." "Well ?" was all Madge said, standing before him with her arms folded. The mother to the streets, and the boy to the gallows." "You wouldn't prosecute him, William; your own son ?" "No, I shan't," he replied;--"but the Bank will." "And couldn't you stop it ?" "I could. But if holding up my little finger would save him, I wouldn't do it." "Oh, William," she cried, throwing herself on her knees; "don't look like that. I confess everything; visit it on me, but spare that boy." "You confess, do you ?" he said. |