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 "What do you mean?"

"You promised me to be responsible for the iron-store and our friend inside."

"You kept saying he was so safe! You yourself asked me in to have a drink!"

"Well, my good fellow, but if it comes to keeping one's word! You should practise what you preach. No man can be in two places at once; you undertake to remain in one, yet you want to go gallivanting after the police!"

"I can't help it. The other young fools are not fit."

"What about me?"

"You!" cried Young.

"Why not, my friend? Now look you here: let us understand each other. I don't want the police at all. I want to put that chap in a buggy and tool him over to the police, with two or three of us, well-armed, beside him. He would never be idiot enough to try anything on, and the whole thing would be done quietly without fuss. That's my idea. I've said it till I'm