FOXING IT,

and that he was trying to play off the “pious dodge,” awakening

commisseration and sympathy from the tender-hearted and religious. The

asperity and bitter irony shown when a lady less sympathizing and more

matter of-fact than most of his visitors spoke severely of his disgraceful

position and degraded life led many to think that Cole is a consumate

actor and an arch hypocrite.

When asked why they went to the Northfield bank, and whether it was not

more risky than even Mankato banks, he said he told the others at the

first that it was