"Don't you be one, nuther. You're gettin' a chanst."
"Yes," Jeff sighed, "a big chance." He looked again at the candle. "Any
of your hounds ever get you out of jail, Barr?"
"_Pah!_ How might a houn' do such?"
"Well, Pal got me out."
"Those words I mistrust."
"He did," Jeff insisted. "It was in Cressman--"
He told of the Cressman jail and of how he was literally thrown out of
it because, when he played the mouth organ, Pal howled. He spoke of
inquiring the way to Delview as a ruse to throw Pop and Joe Parker from
his trail, for he suspected that they had intended to have him
rearrested there. Instead of going to Delview, he had come over the
hills to Smithville.