If you insist upon having that package I must ask them to withdraw, and I'm afraid you'll find me better prepared to resist a SECOND robbery than I was the first.

Your warrant, which was taken out by the Express Company, is supplanted by civil proceedings taken the day before yesterday against the property of the fugitive swindler Harkins! You should have consulted the sheriff before you came here." Stanner saw his mistake.

But in the faces of his grinning followers he was obliged to keep up his bluster.

"You shall hear from me again, sir," he said, turning on his heel.
"I beg your pardon," said Clinch grimly, "but do I understand that at last I am to have the honor--" "You shall hear from the Company's lawyers, sir," said Stanner turning red, and noisily leaving the room.
"And so, my dear ladies," said Colonel Clinch, "you have spent a week with a highwayman.

I say A highwayman, for it would be hard to call my young friend Falkner by that name for his first offence, committed under great provocation, and undoubtedly instigated by Lee, who was an old friend of his, and to whom he came, no doubt, in desperation." Kate stole a triumphant glance at her sister, who dropped her lids over her glistening eyes.