"Never fear. I said I wouldn't tell, and I haven't told. I haven't
breathed a word to any one as wasn't in the house the night when you
talked it over."
Her husband was satisfied.
Betty was gone to her aunt's, and it was positively ascertained that she
was not to return that night. Johnson had clearly no intention of
spending the night away from home, for, as he was leaving the pit-bank,
when Will Jones stepped up to him and said,--
"Well, Thomas, I suppose you'll have a rare tale to tell about your old
mates to-morrow; we must come all on us and hearken you."