"I'll make myself intelligible before I've done," rejoined Wild. You are queerly educated; and it strikes me that your father had some definite purpose in thus educating you. " Ruth slightly brushed the withered cheek. If I’d meant it, my girl, you’d be dead meat. "Stay!" cried Wood, "this is a most perplexing business—if you really are privy to the affair——" "We'll talk of it to-morrow, Sir," returned Jackson, cutting him short. Wood; "I'll not bear it. But this only incensed the assailing party the more.