? ? ? ? The thing made a big stir in the town, too, and a good many come out flatfooted and said it was scandalous to separate the mother and the children that way. It injured the frauds some; but the old fool he bulled right along, spite of all the duke could say or do, and I tell you the duke was powerful uneasy.
? ? ? ? Next day was auction day. About broad-day in the morning, the king and the duke come up in the garret and woke me up, and I see by their look that there was trouble. The king says:
? ? ? ? "Was you in my room night before last?"
? ? ? ? "No, your majesty"- which was the way I always called him when nobody but our gang warn't around.
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