She seized Ida roughly by the arm, and striding with her to the closet already spoken of, unlocked it, and, rudely pushing her in, locked the door after her.
"Stay there till you know how to behave," she said.
"How did you manage to come it over her family ?" inquired Dick.
His wife gave substantially the account with which the reader is already familiar.
"Pretty well done, old woman!" exclaimed Dick, approvingly.

"I always said you was a deep un.

I always says, if Peg can't find out how a thing is to be done, then it can't be done, nohow." "How about the counterfeit coin ?" she asked.
"We're to be supplied with all we can put off, and we are to have half for our trouble." "That is good.

When the girl, Ida, gets a little tamed down, we'll give her something to do." "Is it safe?
Won't she betray us ?" "We'll manage that, or at least I will.

I'll work on her fears, so she won't any more dare to say a word about us than to cut her own head off." "All right, Peg.