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But Ike saved him all perplexity as to introducing the object of his visit by saying at once, picking up one of the sugar-buckets which had rolled off to one side, "I'm jest pilin' up Ganew's sugar-buckets for him. He pays me well for storin' 'em, but I kind o' hate to have anythin' to do with him.
"Mebbe it is, and mebbe it isn't. But I hain't askin' for anythin' but information. There was a bit o' prop'ty and a mill onto it, over at Heavytree, ez sold for $10,000. I don't see," said the captain, consulting his memorandum-book, "ez HE got anything out of it." "It was mortgaged for $7,000," said the lawyer, quickly, "and the interest and fees amount to about $3,000 more."
And didn't his nose touch me own?" "Did he look pale and excited?" asked the coroner. "No, yer Honor; his face was red as a brick, an', though it was a cowld night, he looked to be warm wid fasht walkin'." "Did he say anythin'?" "No; he only axed for a light." "Was his 'pearance 'spicious?" "No, yer Honor, more'n yer own. No offince to yez." "That'll do, Mr. O'Dougherty. Next witness."
Frank extinguished his light and the boys stood in darkness as complete as ever fell since the dawn of creation. "What do you think?" asked Jack, of Frank. "Looks like a trap." Sandy sprang forward and seized Frank by the arm, and his voice shook as he began. "No! It ain't no trap! I didn't bring you here to get rolled for your wads, or anythin' like that.
"He will, if ever I has anythin' tuh say 'bout it," growled the shorter rascal, shaking his bullet-shaped head, which the boys now saw had been closely shaven, which would indicate that he must in truth be some escaped convict. "We're waiting for you to move along," remarked Max. "Don't bother thanking us for the little food we had to spare you. It may keep you from starvation, anyway.
If you said anythin', an' for all your protestations I'm sure ye did or did not, which is worse, eat ut all lie like the father of all lies, but come out av ut free av Judy. Do I not know what ut is to marry a woman that was the very spit an' image av Judy whin she was young? I'm gettin' old an' I've larnt patience, but you, Terence, you'd raise hand on Judy an' kill her in a year.
I told him I wouldn't do anythin' I wasn't told to do in straight American, an' when he started in jabberin' and abusin' me with every bad name he'd heard since he landed, why, I gave him a hammerin'. So, just as 'Hatchet Ben' here was driven out by Slovaks, it was a gang of Italians that gave me my throw-down.
I dunno what was in your pockets when I dried your kit, fer I didn't look to see; but I'd say, using the very same words ez you used jest now, neither me nor dad an' we was the only two that teched you after you was brought aboard knows anythin' 'baout the money. Thet's my say. Naow?"
"It seems to me," said Claude, "that if they'd seen us, they'd have said something more or at any rate, they'd have made more noise. But as it is, they've been perfectly silent." "Wal I on'y hope we won't hear anythin' more of them." For more than two hours silence was observed on board the Parson. Terry stopped all whistling, and occupied himself with scratching his bullet head.
"Say, Buck," he went on quickly, "What makes yuh so keen about this, anyhow? Yuh ain't no deputy sheriff, or anythin' like that, are yuh?" For a moment Stratton was taken aback by the unexpectedness of the question.
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