12/12 You'd be paying him money--and he might be giving you change. Did you happen to see his purse, now ?" "Aye!" answered I."What for do you ask that ?" "Because," said he, "we've taken a fellow at one of those riverside publics that's been drinking heavily, and, of course, spending money freely. And he has a queer-looking purse on him, and one or two men that's seen it vows and declares it was Abel Crone's.". |