Nor was there any denying the fact that the watch was absent.
"Honest, Hi; honest," he faltered.

"I didn't see the watch at all." "You've got to find it, just the same," retorted Martin stubbornly.
"If you take things away and lose them you've got to find them, or make good for them.

Now, Mr.Smarty, I'm going home, and you're going to find the watch." "Say, you might help a fellow and be decent about it," pleaded Ted.
"I didn't lose the watch, and I won't help you look for it," snapped back Hi Martin, as he strode away.

"But if you aren't at my home with that gold watch before dark to-night, then you may look for things to happen to you! Find the watch, or wait and see what the law will do to you, Mr.Ted Smarty!" Right on the spot Ted Teall started to look, a feeling of dull but intense misery gnawing in his breast.
"Oh, gracious! But now I've gone and done it!" groaned Teall, beginning to shake in his shoes.

"Now, I'm in a whole peck and half of trouble, for I'll never be lucky enough to find that watch again!".