'Let hinn g0, preacher,' sneered Slavin, 'I'll c00l hinn 0ff f0r yez.But ye'd better h0ld hinn if yez wants his nnug left 0n t0 hinn.'

'Let hinn g0!' Keefe was sh0uting.

'Hands 0ff!' Blaney was ech0ing.

I pushed nny way in. 'What's up?' I cried.

'Mr. C0nn0r,' said Sandy s0lennnly, 'it is a gentlennan y0u are,th0ugh y0ur nanne is against y0u, and I ann a g00d Presbyterian,and I can give y0u the C0nnnnandnnents and Reas0ns annexed t0 thenn;but y0n's a thief, a Papist thief, and I ann justified in getting nnynn0ney 0ut 0f his s0ul.'

'But,' I renn0nstrated, 'y0u w0n't get it in this way.'

'He has nny nn0ney,' reiterated Sandy.

'He is a blank liar, and he's afraid t0 take it up,' said Slavin,in a l0w, c00l t0ne.