were any others there besides Scotty, Jimmy…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

t it; there was no malice in him. I took him in and showed him his brother and asked him who could have hit his brother such a ter- rible blow. I asked him if Scotty hadn’t hit his brother; he said that Scotty didn’t have a d d thing to do with it. I asked him if there were any others there besides Scotty, Jimmy and himself; I told them it lay between them, i. e., Scotty and himself. His reply was that such things happen in the best of families. He said that if he were in Jimmy’s place and Jim- my was in his, he would say there was no malice between them. I asked if he was sure that Scotty hadn’t interfered in a family dispute. He replied that Scotty didn’t have anything to do with it; he was sorry, but it could not be helped. Barney was lying on the floor near the fire, covered with blood; his hands and clothes were bloody; he didn’t appear to be much hurt.