“No, mate,” ses Bob Pretty. “I'm going to 'ave my rights, but I don't want to be 'ard on a man I've known all my life; and if, afore I go to my bed to-night, the thirty shillings is brought to me, I won't say as I won't look over it.” He stood for a moment shaking his 'ead at them, and then, still holding it very 'igh, he turned round and walked out. “He never left no money on the mantelpiece,” ses Sam Jones, at last. “Don't you believe it. You go to jail, Henery.” “Anything sooner than be done by Bob Pretty,” ses George Kettle. “There's not much doing now, Henery,” ses Bill Chambers, in a soft voice. Henery Walker wouldn't listen to 'em, and he jumped up and carried on like a madman. His idea was for 'em all to club together to pay the money, and to borrow it from Smith, the landlord, to go on with. They wouldn't 'ear of it at fust, but arter Smith 'ad pointed out that they might 'ave to go to jail with Henery, and said things about 'is license, they gave way. Bob Pretty was just starting off to see Policeman White when they took the money, and instead o' telling 'im wot they thought of 'im, as they 'ad intended, Henery Walker 'ad to walk alongside of 'im and beg and pray of 'im to take the money. He took it at last as a favor to Henery, and bought the hamper back with it next morning—cheap. Leastways, he said so. DOUBLE DEALING Mr. Fred Carter stood on the spacious common, inhaling with all the joy of the holiday-making Londoner the salt smell of the sea below, and regarding with some interest the movements of a couple of men who had come to a stop a short distance away. As he looked they came on again, eying him closely as they approached—a strongly built, shambling man of fifty, and a younger man, evidently his son. 'Stood on the Spacious Common, Inhaling The Salt Smell Of The Sea Below.' “Good-evening,” said the former, as they came abreast of Mr. Carter. “Good-evening,” he replied. “That's him,” said both together. They stood regarding him in a fashion unmistakably hostile. Mr. Carter, with an uneasy smile, awaited developments. “What have you got to say for yourself?” demanded the elder man, at last. “Do you call yourself a man?” “I don't call myself anything,” said the puzzled Mr. Carter. “Perhaps you're mistaking me for somebody else.” “Didn't I tell you,” said the younger man, turning to the other—“didn't I tell you he'd say that?” “He can say what he likes,” said the other, “but we've got him now. If he gets away from me he'll be cleverer than what he thinks he is.” “What are we to do with him now we've got him?” inquired his son. The elder man clenched a huge fist and eyed Mr. Carter savagely. “If I was just considering myself,” he said, “I should hammer him till I was tired and then chuck him into the sea.” His son nodded. “That wouldn't do Nancy much good, though,” he remarked.