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It's in the course from Honolulu." "Deuce it is!" cried Carthew. "That settles it, then. Let's stay. We must keep good fires going; and there's plenty wreck." "Lashings of wreck!" said the Irishman. "There's nothing here but wreck and coffin-boards." "But we'll have to make a proper blyze," objected Hemstead. "You can't see a fire like this, not any wye awye, I mean." "Can't you?" said Carthew.
"Ten bob," he bargained; "an' you runnin' awye with th' stuffy ol' gent's fair darter? Come now, guvner, is it gen'rous? Myke it a quid an' " "A pound then. Will you hurry?" By way of answer the fellow scrambled hastily up to the box and snatched at the reins. "Ck! Gee-e hup!" he cried sonorously. By now the mews had wakened to the fact of the presence of a "toff" in its midst.
"Bad, naughty word. You'll be sorry when you find out wot it means.... Only 'e was allus plannin' to run awye and drownd 'is-self."... He wore the joke threadbare, even to his own taste, and in the end got heavily to his feet, starting for the companionway. "Land you this arternoon," he remarked casually, "come three o'clock or thereabahts. Per'aps later.
A jerk of a derisive thumb singled out the other cabman. "'E aren't pl'yin' you fair, sir; I knows 'im, 'e's a hartful g'y deceiver, 'e is. Look at 'is 'orse, w'ich it aren't; it's a snyle, that's w'at it is. Tyke a father's hadvice, sir, and next time yer fairest darter runs awye with the dook in disguise, chyse 'em in a real kebsir, not a cheap imitashin.... Kebsir?... Garn, you 'ard-'arted "
It's in the course from Honolulu." "Deuce it is!" cried Carthew. "That settles it, then. Let's stay. We must keep good fires going; and there's plenty wreck." "Lashings of wreck!" said the Irishman. "There's nothing here but wreck and coffin boards." "But we'll have to make a proper blyze," objected Hemstead. "You can't see a fire like this, not any wye awye, I mean." "Can't you?" said Carthew.
I wanted to cheer and swing me bloomin' cap just to keep from blubberin'. Then, right guide of his four, come Judson. Six paces awye he saw me. He turned white, then red, but like the good soldier 'e was, 'e never let it spoil 'is cadence. 'E tipped me the wink and passed by. I waited. Presently 'e came back. 'Are you with the gang at the castle? 'e arsked. I said I was.
Evidently not yet satisfied with the results obtained from his preliminary investigations, he turned again to the Englishman, who seemed not a little mystified to find his domestic history so interesting to these lordly foreigners. "Where is your father buried?" inquired Sobieska courteously. "Dunno, sir. I was awye when 'e died.
Landlidey said as 'ow a strange gent came, buried 'im an' took 'is hinsurance pipers awye with 'im. Sed 'e was the guvnor's brother." "Did you ever see this uncle?" he asked suavely. "No, sir. Never knew I 'ad one. Guvnor sed 'e was the only child." "Did you claim the insurance?" Carrick paused long before replying. When he spoke again his tone was decidedly hostile.
'Cut it, Bull, and run, 'e said. They used to call me John Bull, you know. Then 'e added slow as if 'e was not sure 'e 'ad the right to tell 'I'm on to their game. To-morrow mornin' I'm goin' to squeal on 'em to the commandant. That'll give you plenty o' time for you to get awye. For old times' syke, Bull, 'e said as 'e gripped my 'and."
Which syme I'm pre-pared to attest afore a no'try publick, an' lodge informeye-tion o' crime. An', s'ys he, 'I demand the protection o' the authorities an' arsk to be directed to the American consul. "S'y, we never wyted to hear no more, but hyked awye hot foot. S'y, wot all now. Oh, mee Gord! eyen't it a rum gao for fair? S'y, let's get aout o' here, Hardy, dear."
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