Ain't that so, Jim Murphy ?" Murphy nodded, and McGowan blazed on: "If you want to know what I think about it--there's something crooked about the whole business, and it gets crookeder all the time.

He's drunk, if he's anything--boiling drunk and--" Jack laid the full weight of his hand on the speaker's shoulder: "Stop short off where you are, Mr.McGowan." The voice came as if through tightly clenched teeth.

"If you have any business that I can attend to I am here to do it, but you can't remain here and abuse Mr.
Minott.

My purpose in coming downstairs was to help you if I could, but you must act like a man, not like a ruffian." Murphy stepped quickly between the two men: "Go easy, Mac," he cried in a conciliatory tone.

"If the doctor's with him ye can't see him.