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"Why," he said, "you know I promised you never to go to the Cockchafer again, and I didn't, but I thought I ought to see Cripps and give him back the bicycle-lamp." "Young muff!" ejaculated his brother. "So," pursued Stephen, still more falteringly, "I thought I'd come up this afternoon." "Well, go on, can't you?" said Oliver, losing his temper at the poor boy's evident uneasiness.
There were worn and greasy notebooks full of detailed information of the road, the cheapest hotels of every known town of Mexico, with the lowest possible price and the idiosyncrasies of their proprietors that might be played upon to obtain it, the exact cafe where the beer glasses grew tallest, the expenditures that might be avoided by a foresighted manipulation; there were shoes and slippers, sleeping garments for each degree of temperature, a cooking outfit, a bicycle-lamp with a chimney to read by, guns, gun-oil, gun-cleaners, flannel cloth to take the place of socks for tramping, vaseline to rub on the same it would be madness to attempt a complete inventory, but he would be inventive indeed who could name anything that Teutonic pack did not contain in some abbreviated form, purchased somewhere second hand at a fourth its original cost.
In true epilepsy the eyes are partly open, with the eyeballs rolling and distorted, whilst the pupils are dilated and do not contract to light; the impostor keeps his eyes closed, and he cannot prevent the iris from contracting when a bicycle-lamp is flashed across his face. A useful test is to give the impostor a pinch of snuff, which promptly brings the entertainment to an end.
"Aren't we fools!" he cried. "What? Oh, God's love, aren't we fools!" "No why?" cried Josephine, amused but resentful. But Jim vouchsafed nothing further, only stood like a Red Indian gripping his pipe. The beam of the bicycle-lamp moved and fell upon the hands and faces of the young people, and penetrated the recesses of the secret trees.
She never realised the male he was. He lighted his bicycle-lamp, bounced the machine on the barn floor to see that the tyres were sound, and buttoned his coat. "That's all right!" he said. She was trying the brakes, that she knew were broken. "Did you have them mended?" she asked. "No!" "But why didn't you?" "The back one goes on a bit." "But it's not safe." "I can use my toe."
And hearing that and to this day I have often wondered what made me do it I off with my cap, and laid it over the bicycle-lamp, and myself sat as still as any of the wee creatures that were doubtless lying behind me in the hedge. The steps came from the direction in which I was bound. There was a bit of a dip in the road just there: they came steadily, strongly, up it.
'The Downs were full o' chalk-pits, and we'd no lights. 'We 'ad the bicycle-lamp to look at the map by. Didn't you notice the old lady at the window where we saw the man in the night-gown? I thought night-gowns as sleepin' rig was extinck, so to speak. 'I tell you I 'adn't leesure to notice, Leggatt repeated. 'That's odd.
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