49/83 I'll beat it with you--and I'll never come back." "You bet your sweet life you won't," shouted Swann. "Come across with that eighty-six bucks you owe me." "I--I haven't got it, Mackay," rejoined the boy, flushing deeply. "There, Hardy Mackay," he said, with deliberate scorn, throwing the money on the table. "There are your eighty-six dollars--_earned_ in France.... I should think it'd burn your fingers." He drew Holt out into the hall, where Pepper waited. |