Introduction

Mac murdo and the girl stood in silence, then she threw her arms round him. He disengaged her hands, kissed her and gently pushed her back into a chair. The bar of mc ginty's saloon was crowded, as usual, for it was the favourite loafing place of all the rougher elements of the town. "I've heard that there is no harm in being a freeman anywhere but here," said Mac Murdo to the girl. 'So why should i think the worse of you for that? But if you are a freeman, jack, why should you not go down and make a friend of bossmc ginty?' She replied: