there
wouldn't be any chance of his managing to get away."

"Did he want them to let Lolla and Peter go, too?"

"No, that's the funny part of it. He didn't seem to care at all what
happened to them, so long as he didn't have to go to jail. He's just
as mean as a snake, Bessie. I've got no use for him at all."

"He was glad enough to have them help him when he wanted to get hold of
us, Dolly. But when he saw a chance to desert them he didn't remember
that, I suppose. What did Andrew think they would do to them?"

"Well, he didn't know. He said that when the people in the town heard
what the gypsies had done they were pretty mad, but, of course, they
didn't really start to do anything to hurt them. The sheriff said he'd
see that they were kept tight until they could be tried, and Andrew
guessed they wouldn't have much chance of getting off when the people
around the town would be on the jury. The men in those parts haven't
any use for gypsies, you see, and they'd be pretty sure to see to it
that they were properly punished."

"I wouldn't mind seeing Lolla get off, Dolly. I don't think she's as
bad as the others."

"Oh, I do, Bessie. I think she's worse. Why, she did her best to get
you into the same trap I was in! She was treacherous and lied to you."

"I know all that, too, Dolly. But it was because John made her do it.
He frightened her, I think, and besides that she's going to be married
to him, and among the gypsies a woman isn't supposed to do any thinking
when her husband tells her to do something. She just has to do it,
whether she thinks it's right or not. It isn't as if she had planned
the whole thing out."

"Well, she hurt you more than she did me. If you don't want her to be
punished, I don't see why I should."

"I don't think I want anyone to be punished, Dolly. But it isn't just
what I want that counts, and I suppose that if that man John got off so
easily it would be a bad thing, because if he's punished it may
frighten some others who'd be ready to do the same thing, and make them
understand that they'd better be careful before they do things that are
against the law."

"Well, I'd like to see him in jail, just to get even for the fright he
gave me when he snatched me up and carried me off through the woods.
And he left me there in that place he found, too, with a handkerchief
in my mouth, and tied up so that I couldn't move, so I don't see why I
shouldn't be glad to see him suf