"It seems to me he's been making a catspaw of you." "A catspaw ?" "Yes, haven't you read the story?
A monkey wanted to draw some chestnuts out of the hot ashes, but, feeling a decided objection to burning his own paws in the operation, drew a cat to the fire and thrust her paw in." "I don't know but it's been so in my case," said Dick.

"I didn't want to do it, and that's a fact.

I felt as mean as could be when I first came into your yard to-night.

But he offered me two dollars to do it, and it's so seldom I see money that it tempted me." Frank looked puzzled.

"I don't see," he said thoughtfully, "how anybody should think it worth while to pay two dollars for such a piece of mischief." "Perhaps he don't like you, and wanted to plague you," suggested Dick.
The thought at once flashed upon Frank that John Haynes must be implicated.