I don't see that Bill meant any hurt except to make some money out of you, and he couldn't help taking chances on that.
If he could have had his way he'd turned you over to us as well as when you left; so I think I'll wait to see what his next trick is to be afore I draw a bead on him.

I'll take another plan--I'll give him the laugh." "Give him the laugh!" repeated the wondering Jack Dudley; "what do you mean by that ?" "I'll meet him here to-morrer morning, and, after we've talked a while, let him see you or know how things stand, and then I'll just laugh at him till I drop to the ground and roll over on my back.

Won't he feel cheap ?" The conceit was so odd that both boys smiled.
"That certainly is a curious way to punish a man for doing a wrong.

It seems to me that, since he had so much to do with abducting Fred, he ought to be arrested, tried, and punished.

He should be made to suffer for his crime." Hank showed his hard sense by replying: "I don't deny that, but there's no way of punishing him.