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"I won't pay you twice," said Haldane doggedly

"Carl, call de policeood, and et you into trouble I have very little s de money"

"Ah, thank Heaven! that is safe, and beyond your clutches"

"In a pawnshop? or vas he stolen, like de tousand dollar, and you been ive him up?"

Haldane had now recovered hily predicament He was not sufficiently familiar with the law to kno ood reason, that soe could be truht Then would follow inevitably another series of paragraphs in the papers, deepening the dark hues in which they had already portrayed his character He could not endure the thought that the last knowledge of him that Laura carried aith her froed with trying to steal his board and lodging froner; for he foresaw that the astute Shrumpf, his German landlord, would appear in the police court in the character of an injured innocent He pictured the disgust upon her face as she saw his nanment would occasion, and he felt that he ed at Shruh to re to oppose to it save his own unsupported word; and as that worth in Hillaton? The public would even be inclined to believe the opposite of what he affirained his self-control, and said firh you know I have paid you, I am yet in a certain sense within your power, since I did not take your receipt I have not much money left, but after I have taken out fifty cents for my supper and bed you can take all the rest My watch is in the hands of a friend, and you can't get that, and you can't get anymy arrest; so take your choice I don't want to have trouble with you, but I won't go out penniless and spend the night in the street, and if you send for a policeman I will make you all the trouble I can, and I promise you it will not be a little"