"Have I not trained them in the way they should go? Do I fear for them?"
A grave silence, and McAlpin glared at Hornby, while an irreverent youth,
with a fish dangling from his hands, laughed and muttered:
"Like gorrems!"
"Play a man's part, Jerry McAlpin. 'Tis not for Jerry-Jo you fear; it's
my business you'd get from me, and you know it! Teach that lad of yours
to be decent, as I've trained mine. I have no fear for my boys! I know
what I'm talking about, and I tell you now, if my lads were like yours
I'd fling the business over, but I don't see why a decent woman, and her
a God-be-praised widow, should lose her living because you can't train
your brats in the way they should go. But this is mine! If you don't
stand by me and swear to do it here and now, it's not another drink one
of you shall get in my place till after things are settled."
This was going farther than Mary McAdam had ever gone before. She had
threatened dire restrictions against them who failed to support her cause
should her cause be won in spite of them; she had even hinted at cash
payments to insure her against want if, possibly, her license was
revoked, but this shutting down upon human rights before election came
off was upsetting to the last degree.
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