If you can skin, that puppy, why, sic 'em, Towse! and the devil take the hindmost! Oh, you Smart Alecks!" He backed out with a traditional wiggle of his fingers.
It is to be regretted that the stringent regulations of the postal authorities will not permit us any report of the heart-to-heart talk that followed his departure, other than the baldest summary.

It was marked by earnestness, sincerity, even by some petulance, interspersed with frank and spirited repartee.

Mutual recrimination resulted.
Subdued and chastened, Mr.Mitchell was reduced to the ranks; Loring, by virtue of his own and Mitchell's vote, replacing him.

Archibald's preference was for a third person still--namely, himself--and he acquiesced with ill grace.
They had but little over ten thousand dollars remaining for the return match; and this, as Loring pointed out with just indignation, would only put them even.

They knew that Wyatt would have at least twice that much with him.