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"No," said Mr. Carter.
"Of course not," said Nancy.
"And you didn't owe that money?"
"Nobody owed it," said Nancy. "It was done just to punish him."
Mr. Evans, with a strange cry, blundered towards the door. "I'll have that money out of 'em," he roared, "if I have to hold 'em up and shake it out of their trouser-pockets. You stay here."
He hurried up the road, and Jim, with the set face of a man going into action against heavy odds, followed him.
"Your father told me to stay," said Mr. Carter, coming farther into the room.
Nancy looked up at him through her eyelashes. "You need not unless you want to," she said, very softly.