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"Then I'll find a et by them, and who is able to obey my orders to the letter The cashier will pay you up to date; then leave the premises"

"Och, Misther Arnot, me woife'll be the death o' me, and thin ye'll have one!" said his employer harshly; "too much time has been wasted already"

Pat found that his case was so desperate that he beca off, he, too showed the sanity that had been so irritating in Haldane Clapping his hat on one side of his head, and with such an insolent cant forward that it quite obscured his left eye, Pat rested his hands on his hips, and with one foot thrust out sidewise, he fixed his right eye on his employer with the expression of sardonic contemplation, and then delivered himself as follows: "The takin' up a few hty tirrible waste, but the sindin' of a human bain to the divil is no waste a' tall a' tall: that's the way ye rason, is it? I allers heerd that yer in'ards were made o' cast-iron, and I can belave--"

"Leave this office," thundered Mr Arnot

"Begorry, ye can't put a man in jail for spakin' his iven me a chance I'd been civil and obadient the rist o' me days But whin ye act to'ard a man as if he was a luo on, ye'll foind that the lump o' dirt will lave some marks on yer nice clothes I tell ye till yer flinty ould face that ye'r a hard-hearted riprobate that 'ud grind a poor divil to paces as soon as anyfactories Ye'll see the day whin ye'll be under somebody's heel yerself, bad luck to yez!"

Pat's irate volubility flowed in such a torrent that even Mr Arnot could not check it until he saw fit to drop the sluice-gates himself, which, with a contemptuous sniff, and an expression of concentrated ood and gall, he now did Lifting his battered hat a little more toward the perpendicular, he went to the cashier's desk, obtained his ed slowly and aie oaths behind hiround out the expected result; but the plague of hu process with the sah he had had his way in each instance, he grew more and more dissatisfied and out of sorts This vituperation of himself would not tend to impress his employes with awe, and strike a wholeso away overwhelht of his displeasure, had acted and spoken as if he were a gri that his clerks in their hearts sided with theainst hi a relation between hi betweena community with identical interests, he was on one side and they on the other But, with the infatuation of a selfish nature and imperious will, he rooves, or toss the his confidential clerk, he said: "You know all about the affair You will obligethe case, with the prisoner's admissions I do not care to appear further in the matter, except by proxy, unless it is necessary"