He expected to gain an easy victory over Phil, whom he supposed to be alone in the chamber.

He sprang toward him, but had barely seized him by the arm, when the gigantic form of the Irishman appeared, and the padrone found himself in his powerful grasp.
"What business have ye here, you bloody villain ?" demanded Pat; "breakin' into an honest man's house, without lave or license.

I'll teach you manners, you baste!" "Give me the boy!" gasped the padrone.
"You can't have him, thin!" said Pat "You want to bate him, you murderin' ould villain!" "I'll have you arrested," said the padrone, furiously, writhing vainly to get himself free.

He was almost beside himself that Phil should be the witness of his humiliation.
"Will you, thin ?" demanded Pat.

"Thin the sooner you do it the betther.
Open the window, Phil!" Phil obeyed, not knowing why the request was made.