Perhaps you don't know that he stole my husband's hard earnings, mortgaged these very goods you want to buy, and that he is to-day a convicted thief, a forger, and a runaway coward.

Perhaps, if you can't understand _me_, you can read the newspaper.

Look!" She exultingly opened the paper the sheriff had been reading aloud, and pointed to the displayed headlines.
"Look! there are the very words, 'Forgery, Swindling, Embezzlement!' Do you see?
And perhaps you can't understand this.

Look! 'Shameful Flight.
Abandons his Wife.

Runs off with a Notorious'"-- "Easy, old gal, easy now.